Fort Pitt a frontier history
"Traces the full history of Fort Pitt, from empire outpost to a bastion on the frontlines of a new republic." -- Back cover.
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Charleston, SC :
History Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue. Streets of a thousand names
- Hugh Mercer: "Capable of a tolerable defence"
- John Stanwix: "A perfect tranquility"
- Robert Monckton: "The brave, open-hearted, and liberal"
- Simeon Ecuyer: "Every one works, and I do not sleep"
- Henry Bouquet: Fort Pitt and the Ohio insurgency
- Lord Dunmore: Pittsburgh in the old dominion
- Daniel Brodhead: Fort Pitt and the American revolution
- Epilogue
- Appendix A. The Hanna's town resolves.
