Fort Pitt (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Charles W. Dahlinger

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331384117 ISBN 13 : 9781331384113

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Fort Pitt’s Redoubt: a walking history of a fort, its people, and Pittsburgh’s riverfront

This book traces the Old Redoubt from its early days as a crowded, working-class stronghold to its later role as a brick relic amid a busy industrial landscape. It blends architectural detail with stories of the tenants, many Irish Catholics, who lived beside the fort and spoke Gaelic in their daily life. readers move through time as streets change, new buildings rise, and the Redoubt remains a durable link to the city’s origins.

• Explore the people, neighborhoods, and daily life surrounding the fort during its active years
• See how the Redoubt survived into later days, changing hands and purposes while the city grew around it
• Learn about the broader history of Fort Pitt, including frontier disputes and the shaping of the region’s borders
• View maps, references, and descriptions that connect the fort to Pittsburgh’s evolving riverfront

Ideal for readers of local history and Pittsburgh’s early years, who want a tangible sense of place and memory of the Monongahela frontier.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

By CHARLES W. DAHLINGER. CHAPTER I. The Struggle For Supremacy Between France and England In the olden time Pittsburgh was known indiscriminately as Pittsburgh and Fort Pitt, the latter designation being most generally used. The story of those far-away days has been told before, but as Sir Charles Wakefield of England is about to present to the city, a bust of William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham, for whom the place was named, it will not be inappropriate to repeat the tale, together with such incidents as may have been overlooked, or which did not come to the knowledge of the earlier historians. The story of the struggle for supremacy in America between the French and the English is of romantic interest. The French claimed the interior of the continent by right of discovery by La Salle, The English claims were more comprehensive and just as inconclusive as those of the French. They claimed the country from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific on the ground of discovery, and the Ohio Valley by purchase at Lancaster in 1744 from the Six Nations, the ostensible owners. (1) The contest on the part of the French was hopeless from the beginning. Their settlements were widely scattered. Canada and A cadia, which last, had been ceded to England in 1713, were in the far north, while away to the south was Louisiana. The total population was only about eighty thousand, while the English Colonies, which were all closely connected and located on the Atlantic seaboard, numbered about one million one hundred and sixty thousand souls. (2) The French developed a comprehensive plan of building a line of forts from Canada southward, intended ultimately to connect Canada with Louisiana, and restrict the English to the seaboard.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331384117
• ISBN 13: 9781331384113
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
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