Walls of Wood, Earth, and Friendship: French Colonial Forts at the Alabama Post, 1717-1763
Author(s): Craig Sheldon
Year: 2014
Summary
Forty years of historical and archaeological research revealed three sequential versions of Fort Toulouse and adjacent French and Indian communities at the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers in Alabama. Each of the four-bastioned palisaded forts varied in architectural and construction details due to differences in armaments, garrison size and composition, local conditions, administrative policies, and French perceptions of colonial British military threats. More critical to forty-six years of successful French fortification and strategy at this isolated post was the nearby French community of garrison soldiers and related civilians and the formal and informal social, economic and diplomatic alliances formed with local Alabama Indian towns.
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Walls of Wood, Earth, and Friendship: French Colonial Forts at the Alabama Post, 1717-1763. Craig Sheldon. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. 2014 ( tDAR id: 436777)
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PaperId(s): SYM-21,09