Porter. A Brief History of Old Fort Niagara (1896)
Porter. A Brief History of Old Fort Niagara (1896)
Porter. A Brief History of Old Fort Niagara (1896)

Porter. A Brief History of Old Fort Niagara (1896)

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Porter, Peter A. A Brief History of Old Fort Niagara; Photographs by Orrin E. Dunlap. Niagara Falls: Peter A. Porter, 1896. First Edition.  [4579] 

Cream wrappers, wrappers soiled, 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches, small chip to wrapper fold at bottom of spine. 84 clean and unmarked pp., illustrated. Good. Paperback.

The author traces the ownership claims to the land and the development of fortifications from the mid 17th century and La Salle, through the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars, the War of 1812, to the year 1825. The bulk of the work deals with the period of the 18th century.