Contributions

  • Jackson, John W. - Contributor

Publication

1998 - University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

52,750 words, Guess

Page Count

211 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL346146M
  • ISBN-100812234308
  • OCLC Control Number38281671
  • Library of Congress Control Number98005195
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  • LibraryThing448353

Classifications

  • DDC974.8/11
  • LCCF158.8.F67 D67 1998

Description

Jeffery M. Dorwort is a professor of history at Rutgers University, Camden.

Description

The site of Fort Mifflin, the Great Mud Island along the entrance of the Delaware River, was the natural barrier to protect the city of Philadelphia from maritime attack. Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia provides an account of the crucial and heavily contested battles around the fortification during 1777, when the British and Americans realized the strategic value of the Great Mud Island as the key to control of the Delaware River, one of the busiest waterways in Colonial America.

Subjects

Topics

HistorymiltaryBuildingsstructuresPennsylvaniaFort MifflinPhiladelphia

Places

Philadelphia (Pa.)Pa.) Fort Mifflin (PhiladelphiaFort Mifflin (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Other Editions

  • Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia: an illustrated historyUniversity of Pennsylvania Press1998-01-01

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