Article: Frontier forts: symbols of American ambition.(Era ...
Cobblestone;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... S. government built a network of frontier forts. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Moving across ... the Indian Wars of the late 1800s--frontier forts stockpiled weapons and prepared soldiers ... ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Many of the frontier forts did not look like the ones in Wild ...

Article: TEXAS FRONTIER FORTS: A PARTNERSHIP BEGINS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The office of Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, issued the following newsletter: I often say that "Texas defends America." That's a shorthand reference to our state's proud, ongoing contributions to the U.S. military and our national defense. But in the years after Texas joined the Union in 1845, the

Article: Contrast and conflict kings of the French frontier; ...
The Sunday Herald;  February 4, 2001 ;     700+ words ...I'm talking to you from deep within the bowels of France, right beside where the French have been training at the superbly exclusive Chateau Ricard, a seemingly wholly unsuitable location for the build- up to a rugby match. And therein lies the element of contrast so prevalent in France. Where the

Article: Fortifications
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ... ... against foreign naval forces. Americans established frontier forts in large numbers until about the end of the nineteenth ... w. See also Air Defense ; Army on the Frontier ; French Frontier Forts ; Frontier Defense ; and names of individual forts ...

Article: Company of One Hundred Associates
Dictionary of American History;      361 words ... ... John J., and Kenneth Morgan. The Early Modern Atlantic Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Mary Borgias Palm S.N.D. / s. b. See also Cod Fisheries ; French Frontier Forts ; Fur Trade and Trapping ; New France .

Article: Franciscans
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ... ... Conquest. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. Antonine S. Tibesar / a. e. See also Colorado River Explorations ; Exploration of America, Early ; French Frontier Forts ; Hennepin, Louis, Narratives of ; Indian Missions .

Article: Jolliet-Marquette Explorations
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ... ... Wisconsin History Series, vol. 1. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1925. Louise Phelps Kellogg / a. r. See also Explorations and Expeditions: French ; French Frontier Forts ; Jesuit "Relations" ; Mississippi River .