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Palisaded settlements were common in Colonial North America, for protection against indigenous peoples and wild animals. The English settlements in Jamestown, Virginia (1607), Cupids, Newfoundland (1610) and Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620) were all originally fortifications that were surrounded by palisades.
The east and west palisade walls were each 100 yards long, while the south palisade was 140 yards when each was measured to the projected intersection, “where the lines meet,” as described by Strachey. By as early as 1609 James Fort was “reduced” to a five-sided fortification. The topography around the fort only allowed it to extend to ...
Apr 1, 2012 · Evidence from seventeenth‐century New Spain, New France, and New England can shed light on the interplay of enclosure and commons in the formation of colonial property regimes in North America. 4 It shows that common property was a central feature of both native and settler forms of land tenure in the early colonial period and that dispossession came about largely through the clash of an ...
- Allan Greer
- 2012
- The Colonial and Pre-Revolutionary Period
- The Revolutionary Period Through 1794
- The First System, 1794–1801
- The Second System, 1807–1814
- The Florida Frontier, 1817–1842
- Bibliography
Native Americansand seventeenth-century settlers and colonists frequently surrounded their villages with palisades or stockades, interchangeable terms for protective rows of felled trees dug vertically into the ground. Musketeers and bowmen shot from ports or loopholes in the stockade or, occasionally, from a blockhouse or a bastion located on one ...
The term "fort" had a broad meaning in the North American colonies. It referred to stockades, palisades, blockhouses, redoubts, redans(v-shaped projections from a fortified line), detached works, rifle and artillery batteries, flèches (detached v-shaped defensive works in an open field), garrisons, outposts or camps, and even castles and fortresses...
After the Treaty of Parisended the War of Independence in 1783, Americans were concerned that France and Britain would exploit the loyalty of Native American groups to block American westerly expansion. Also, the young American nation saw Britain's nautical mercantilism and France's Anglophobia as a threat to American rights of shipping and commerc...
A renewed need for seacoast protection against the French, British, and Native Americans resulted in the Second American System of fortification of the seacoast, one of the first projects undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers. Most Second System seacoast forts were essentially completed by 1812. Multitiered architecture, with casemates at the l...
Diverse groups of Native Americans including Yamasees, Muscogulees, Seminoles, Cherokees, and Creeks settled in Florida throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The First Seminole War (1817–1818) involved raids, with the quasi approval of the president, by General Andrew Jackson's army against the forts and crops of Seminoles, "Sem...
Grant, Bruce. American Forts, Yesterday and Today.New York: Dutton, 1965. Greene, Jerome A. The Allies at Yorktown: A Bicentennial History of the Siege of 1781, Colonial National Historical Park, Virginia.Denver, Colo.: Denver Service Center, Historic Preservation Division, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1976. ——. Ninety Six: A ...
Protective palisades were built around the dwellings; these stood 4.3 to 4.9 m (14 to 16 ft) high, keeping the longhouse village safe. Tribes or ethnic groups in northeast North America, south and east of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie , which had traditions of building longhouses include the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee): Seneca , Cayuga , Onondaga , Oneida and Mohawk .
Native populations in the coastal northeast were devastated by an epidemic that raged from 1617 to 1619, killing 95 percent of the Abenaki people and over 90 percent of the Massachusetts tribe. This emptying of the land was seen by English settlers as a gift of divine providence.
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The European colonization of North America began with dreams of gold, glory, and new beginnings, but quickly turned into a nightmare for the Indigenous peoples. From the moment Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World, a brutal clash of cultures unfolded. Across the vast expanse of the continent, European powers vied for control, leaving a trail of bloodshed and suffering. Through wars ...
