This collection of essays presents an overview of the fortifications that guarded the frontiers and borderlands between Native Americans, French settlers, and Anglo-American settlers. Civilian, provincial, or imperial, the fortifications examined here range from South Carolina’s Fort Prince George to Fort Frontenac in Ontario and Fort de Chartres in Illinois.
Lawrence E. Babits is retired director of the Program in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University, USA and coeditor of Fields of Conflict: Battlefield Archaeology from the Roman Empire to the Korean War.
Stephanie Gandulla is a maritime archaeologist an media coordinator at Thuner Bay National Marine Sanctuary.