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]

QUAINT AND HISTORIC FORTS
OF NORTH AMERICA

[STRONGHOLDS OF THE PAST]

The tourist on the coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia—for in summer hundreds of people seek out this pleasant land for its cheerful climate—may come upon a little bay on the easternmost verge of the land where is a deep land-locked inlet protected from elemental fury by a long rocky arm thrust out from the shore into the sea. He will not be able to surmise from the present aspect of his surroundings that this was the site of mighty Louisburg, the greatest artificial stronghold (Quebec being largely a work of nature) that the French ever had in the New World. Of this massive and menacing fortress, which cost thirty million livres and twenty-five years of toil to build after the designs of the great Vauban, hardly one stone lies placed upon another and grass and rubble have taken the place of the heavy walls. Standing on the ground where New France’s greatest leaders stood it is difficult to-day to picture the martial pomp which once must have claimed this spot, to visualize, more particularly, the setting for the farcical onslaught of the zealous New Englanders of 1744, under the doughty Pepperell, in their greatest single military exploit.