The Ancient Watch-tower of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, |
Florida Frontispiece |
(By courtesy of the St. Augustine Historical Society) |
Mighty Louisburg To-day, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia: |
To Sea from the Ruined Walls | 2 |
All That Remains Standing | 2 |
Water-front of Present-day Detroit | 16 |
Where Indian Canoes and the Palisades of the French Were. |
Old Block-house, Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh, Pa. | 18 |
(From a Painting in the Collection of the Pennsylvania Historical Society) |
Fort Independence from the Water, Boston, Mass. | 26 |
Floating Hospital in Foreground |
Fort Independence, Castle Island, Boston, Mass.: |
Fort Winthrop from Castle Island | 30 |
Main Entrance, Fort Independence | 30 |
Harbor Side, Fort Independence, Boston, Mass. | 34 |
Entrance to Fort Columbus (Fort Jay), Governor’s Island, New York Harbor | 36 |
Fort Sites in Present-day New York City: |
Fort Washington Point. Fort Lee on Opposite Shore | 38 |
Where Was Fort Amsterdam; the Customs House | 38 |
Fort Lafayette, from Fort Hamilton, New York | 45 |
Fort Ticonderoga, Lake Champlain, New York | 51 |
Interior Views of Fort Ticonderoga, N. Y.: |
The Mess Hall | 62 |
A Council Room | 62 |
Crown Point, N. Y., in Dead of Winter: |
Where the Flag Flew | 66 |
The Ruined Barracks | 66 |
The Heights of Quebec | 72 |
(By courtesy of Detroit Publishing Company) |
Guns, Parade and Ancient Officers’ Quarters, Fort Annapolis Royal, N. S. | 84 |
(By courtesy of The Boston Times) |
View from Citadel Hill, Halifax, N. S. | 94 |
Old Martello Tower, near Halifax, N. S. | 96 |
Fort Niagara, on Niagara River, N. Y. | 114 |
The South View of Oswego on Lake Ontario | 122 |
(From William Smith’s View of the Province of New York, London Edition, 1757) |
Fort Michillimackinac and State Park, Mackinac Island, Michigan | 137 |
Old Block-house and Mission Point, Fort Michillimackinac Reservation, Mackinac Island, Michigan | 139 |
Fort Massac, on the Ohio (La Belle Riviere): |
Memorial Monument, Erected by Illinois Daughters American Revolution | 142 |
From the River | 142 |
Entrance to Fort Putnam, West Point, N. Y., in Winter | 148 |
Showing Tower of New Academy Chapel in Middle Distance |
Sketch Snap-shots of West Point’s Historic Memorials: |
Fort Putnam’s Rocky Interior | 152 |
Kosciuszko Monument | 152 |
The North Wall, “Old Put” | 152 |
Fort Constitution (Castle William and Mary), Great Island, near Portsmouth, N. H. | 162 |
A Distant View of Fort Constitution | 165 |
Historic Points on the Thames River, Conn.: |
Fort Griswold, Groton | 168 |
Fort Trumbull, New London | 168 |
Entrance to Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia | 174 |
The Moat in Winter, Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia | 178 |
Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md.: |
A View from an Aeroplane | 180 |
The Guard-house | 180 |
Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md.: |
Looking Toward the Lazaretto | 182 |
One of the Old Batteries in Place | 182 |
Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md.: |
From This Point the Star Spangled Banner Flew | 187 |
The Entrance | 187 |
Col. George Armistead | 188 |
In Command of Fort McHenry During the Siege |
Moat and Entrance, Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla. | 190 |
(By courtesy of the St. Augustine Historical Society) |
Incline Leading to Ramparts, Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla. | 196 |
(By courtesy of the St. Augustine Historical Society) |
Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba | 203 |
Fort San Carlos de Barrancas, near Pensacola, Florida | 209 |
(By courtesy of the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce) |
Fort Scott and the Golden Gate, Presidio Reservation, San Francisco, Cal. | 216 |
(By courtesy of R. J. Waters & Co.) |
Lime Rock Light-house, Newport Harbor, Looking Toward Fort Adams | 222 |
Glimpses of Newport’s Historic Defences: |
Parade, Old Fort Adams | 225 |
Present-day Aspect of Fort Greene | 225 |
Panorama of Newport Harbor, R. I., Showing Fort Adams at Left Middle Distance | 230 |
Goat Island in Central Distance. |
Fort Dumplings, Conanicut Island, a Revolutionary Relic Near Newport | 231 |
From the Ramparts of Fort Monroe, Looking Toward Hampton Roads | 232 |
Taken During the Jamestown Celebration by the United States War Department and Reproduced by Special Permission. |
Garden View of One of Monroe’s Ante-bellum Residences | 234 |
Fire!!! | 236 |
Showing Shells Just Leaving Mortars, Fort Monroe, Va. This Remarkable Photograph Was Taken with Modern High Speed Apparatus by the Corps of Enlisted Specialists Stationed at This Post. |
(By courtesy of the War Department) |
Casemates of Fort Monroe, as They Were During the Civil War | 239 |
Fort Sumter, a Pile of Stone on a Sandy Shoal | 242 |
The Deserted Casemates of Fort Pulaski, near Savannah, Ga. | 253 |
Scenes of Desolation at Fort Pulaski, near Savannah, Ga.: |
Parade and Ramparts | 256 |
The Battered Eastern Salient | 256 |
Old Stone Tower at Fort Snelling, near St. Paul, Minn. | 268 |
Ruins of the Alamo in 1845 | 280 |
From a Sketch Upon Map of the Country in the Vicinity of San Antonio de Bexar Made by J. Edmund Blake, 1st Lieutenant Topographical Engineers, U. S. A. |
(By courtesy of the War Department) |
Fort Keogh, near Miles City, Montana | 289 |
Fort Yuma, California | 296 |
(By courtesy of the War Department) |
Scenes at Valley Forge, Pa.: |
National Memorial Arch | 300 |
Washington’s Headquarters | 300 |
Two Views To-day of the “Crater,” Petersburg, Va.: |
The Slaughter Hollow | 302 |
The Entrance to the Tunnel | 302 |