Indians and British outposts in eighteenth-century America / Daniel Ingram.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ingram, Daniel Patrick, 1960-
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Army > Military life > History > 18th century.
Indigenous peoples of North America > First contact with Europeans.
Fortification > United States > History > 18th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States.
United States > Race relations > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Defenses.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Physical Description:xiii, 257 pages : illustrations, maps
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: British forts and Indian neighbors
  • The Key to Carolina: Old Hop, Little Carpenter, and the making of Fort Loudoun, 1756-1759
  • Anxious hospitality: loitering at Fort Allen, 1756-1761
  • The greatest mart of all: trade, food, drink, and interdependence at Michilimackinac, 1761- 1796
  • A year at Niagara: violence, diplomacy, and coexistence in the eastern Great Lakes, 1763- 1764
  • Like stars that fall: keeping up appearances at Fort Chartres, 1765-1772
  • Conclusion: the Mohawks' new world.