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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.

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A useful addition to the scholarship on forts, Native-European interactions, and military life on the colonial frontier during the Seven Years War and a fine example of the insights archaeologists can offer military historians. H-Net

A useful addition to the scholarship on forts, Native-European interactions, and military life on the colonial frontier during the Seven Years' War and a fine example of the insights archaeologists can offer military historians. --H-Net

An essential source book for anyone interested in the physical characteristics and archaeological representation of mid-to-late eighteenth-century fortified sites in eastern North America. Illinois Archaeology

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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.

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