Michigan's military forts shaped the Great Lakes frontier as European and then American settlers and explorers moved westward. When La Salle's crew reached the mouth of the St. Joseph River, they built Fort Miami, the first European military post on Michigan soil. Following a humiliating betrayal, Chief Pontiac laid vengeful siege to Fort Detroit for five months, during which he let neither supplies nor man pass through the siege lines intact. Stationed at Fort Gratiot, a young Lieutenant Robert E. Lee had a sweet tooth that forced him to hide in a closet to avoid a local baker demanding Lee pay his past-due bill. A mosquito helped to force the closing of Fort Saginaw.
Author and Michigan native David Wedge recovers the stories of these forgotten guardians.
From Trenton to Yorktown$20.00
The Battles of Spencer's Ordinary and Green Spring, ...$28.00
The Confederacy Myth$30.00
The Flight Nurses' War$32.00
Prosperity Road$35.00
Military Memoirs of the Great Civil War. Being the M...$22.95
Military Memoirs of the Great Civil War. Being the M...$33.95
Killing Pablo$20.00
Submarine Aircraft Carriers$39.95
Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes$14.95
