Download or read book Fort Pitt written by Brady Crytzer and published by Landmarks. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly half a century, Fort Pitt stood formidable at the forks of the great Ohio River. A keystone to British domination in the territory during the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion, it was the most technologically advanced fortification in the Western Hemisphere. Early Patriots later seized the fort, and it became a rallying point for the fledgling Revolution. Guarding the young settlement of Pittsburgh, Fort Pitt was the last point of civilization at the edge of the new American West. With vivid detail, historian Brady Crytzer traces the full history of Fort Pitt, from empire outpost to a bastion on the frontlines of a new republic. Book jacket.
Download or read book Fort Pitt written by Brady J Crytzer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn more about a key military bastion of the American Revolution and guard of the Western frontier, Pittsburgh, through this illustrated history. For nearly half a century, Fort Pitt stood at the forks of the great Ohio River. A keystone to British domination in the territory during the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s Rebellion, it was the most technologically advanced fortification in the Western Hemisphere. Early Patriots later seized the fort, and it became a rallying point for the fledgling Revolution. Guarding the young settlement of Pittsburgh, Fort Pitt was the last point of civilization at the edge of the new American West. With vivid detail, historian Brady Crytzer traces the full history of Fort Pitt, from empire outpost to a bastion on the frontlines of a new republic.
Download or read book An Alternative History of Pittsburgh written by Ed Simon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the
Download or read book St George s Cross and the Siege of Fort Pitt written by Calvin J. Boal and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has created a character from the early 1700s-Thomas Doty, who lives on a family farm outside of Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania. He meets a weathered sea captain who is down on his luck and short of hands aboard his sloop, the Shannon. Intrigued by adventure, Thomas goes to sea, but ends up shipwrecked and seized by a band of surly cutthroat pirates. Now, amid the designs of some sordid brigands well-acquainted with wanton cruelty, Thomas wonders if his courage and cunning can release him from his captors' wily schemes. His escape from them only hurls him into challenges fraught with unforeseen circumstances as he journeys homeward and beyond, discovering the distant frontier of western Pennsylvania and the Ohio country teeming with Mingo, Delaware, Shawnee, and Seneca Indians intent on preserving their culture from the ever-encroaching whites. As Thomas negotiates with death on the one hand and life on the other, survival forces him onward. He encounters English and French traders and finds friends, love, and a mortal enemy as he endures life within the turmoil of the French and Indian War, Pontiac's Rebellion, and the siege of Fort Pitt.
Download or read book Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt Early Names of Pittsburgh Streets written by Daughters of the American Revolution. Pittsburgh Chapter and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following work covers the history of Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt. Fort Duquesne was a fort established by the French, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. It was later taken over by the British, and later the Americans, and developed as Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Fort Duquesne was destroyed by the French, prior to British conquest during the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War on the North American front. The British replaced it, building Fort Pitt during the French and Indian War.
Download or read book Fort Pitt written by Charles William Dahlinger and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of the Colonies written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Pitt and Letters from the Frontier written by Mary Carson Darlington and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt written by CREATESPACE INDEPENDENT PUB and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRONOLOGY 1753-The French begin to build a chain of forts to enforce their boundaries. December 11, 1753.-Washington visits Fort Le Boeuf. January, 1754.-Washington lands on Wainwright's Island in the Allegheny river.-Recommends that a Fort be built at the "Forks of the Ohio." February 17, 1754.-A fort begun at the "Forks of the Ohio" by Capt. William Trent. April 16, 1754.-Ensign Ward, with thirty-three men, surprised here by the French, and surrenders. June, 1754.-Fort Duquesne completed. May 28, 1754.-Washington attacks Coulon de Jumonville at Great Meadows. July 9, 1755.-Braddock's defeat. April, 1758.-Brig. Gen. John Forbes takes command. August, 1758.-Fort Bedford built. October, 1758.-Fort Ligonier built. November 24, 1758.-Fort Duquesne destroyed by the retreating French. November 25, 1758.-Gen. Forbes takes possession. August, 1759.-Fort Pitt begun by Gen. John Stanwix. May, 1763.-Conspiracy of Pontiac. July, 1763.-Fort Pitt besieged by Indians. 1764.-Col. Henry Bouquet builds the Redoubt. October 10, 1772.-Fort Pitt abandoned by the British. January, 1774.-Dr. James Connelly occupies Fort Pitt with Virginia militia, and changes name to Fort Dunmore. July, 1776.-Indian conference at Fort Pitt.-Pontiac and Guyasuta. June 1, 1777.-Brig. Gen. Hand takes command of the fort. 1778.-Gen. McIntosh succeeds Hand. November, 1781.-Gen. William Irvine takes command. May 19, 1791.-Maj. Isaac Craig reports Fort Pitt in a ruinous condition.-Builds Fort Lafayette. September 4, 1805.-The historic site purchased by Gen. James O'Hara. April 1, 1894.-Mrs. Mary E. Schenley, granddaughter of Gen. James O'Hara, presents Col. Bouquet's Redoubt to the Daughters of the American Revolution of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Download or read book Major Washington s Pittsburgh and the Mission to Fort Le Boeuf written by Brady Crytzer and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2011 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the winter of 1753 George Washington accepted the first, and potentially most dangerous, mission of his life ... The resulting tale ... set the stage for the French and Indian War and forever changed Washington's destiny ... Using firsthand accounts, including the journals of George Washington himself, historian Brady Crytzer reconstructs the complex world of eighteenth-century Pittsburgh"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Fort Pitt to Fort William written by John Pateman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Frank Dickens (son of Charles Dickens) and his life in the North West Mounted Police in Canada from 1874 - 1886.
Download or read book Outposts of the War for Empire written by Charles Morse Stotz and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refers to Pierre-Joseph Celoron de Blainville.
Download or read book Modern Chivalry written by Hugh Henry Brackenridge and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was only after serving as a chaplain in the American Revolution, playing an important role in the Whiskey Rebellion, and serving (often controversially) on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, that Hugh Henry Brackenridge composed his great comic epic. Published in installments over the twenty-eight–year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison, this irreverent and ribald novel, relating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O'Regan, leaves no major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issue of the period unscathed.
Download or read book The Fort Pitt Block House written by Emily M. Weaver and published by Landmarks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with its construction in 1764, the story of the Fort Pitt Block House is one that spans nearly three centuries of Pittsburgh history. The Block House was originally constructed as a defensive redoubt for Fort Pitt, a key British fortification during the French and Indian War. After the conflicts on the Pennsylvania frontier ended, the brick-laid building served as a trading post for wares and munitions, and in the nineteenth century, it played host to families and even a candy shop. In 1894, the only surviving structure of Fort Pitt was gifted to the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Though the building was threatened by demolition for the expansion of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Daughters of the American Revolution fought to preserve this historic treasure for Pittsburgh. Join site curator and author Emily M. Weaver as she chronicles the remarkable history of the Fort Pitt Block House.
Download or read book Drums In The Forest written by Alfred Proctor James and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published to commemorate the bicentennial of Pittsburgh's founding, Drums in the Forest is now reissued to mark the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War. It comprises two parts: the first, by Alfred Proctor James, provides the historical background leading up to the capture of Fort Duquesne by the British; the second, by Charles Morse Stotz, is a description of the five forts built at the forks of the Ohio between 1754 and 1815.
Download or read book Pittsburgh in Stages written by Lynne Conner and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of theater in Pittsburgh is offered in this volume that relates the significant influence and interpretation of urban socioeconomic trends in the theatrical arts and the role of the theater as an agent of social change.
Download or read book Report on Canadian Archives written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
