Author: WEINET, RICHARD & ARTHUR, COLONEL ROBERT. Title: Defender of the Chesapeake: The Story of Fort Monroe.
Description: Revised Second Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [xiv], 293; endpaper maps, numerous b/w, illustrations, bibliography, index, original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration to front board, dustjacket with small piece missing on top edge and closed tear, otherwise a very good copy. Annapolis; Leeward publications, Inc.; 1978. No history of Fort Monroe existed until 1930, the original author Colonel Arthur and Richard Weinet began set out to revise and bring the history up to date, and the result is this work which gives the military history of Old Point Comfort spanning over three and a half centuries from the establishment of Fort Algernourne in 1609 to activation of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command in 1973.
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- Book number: 106478