TY - GEN N2 - This fascinating look at the cultural and military importance of British forts in the colonial era explains how these forts served as communities in Indian country more than as bastions of British imperial power. Their security depended on maintaining good relations with the local Native Americans, who incorporated the forts into their economic and social life as well as into their strategies. AB - This fascinating look at the cultural and military importance of British forts in the colonial era explains how these forts served as communities in Indian country more than as bastions of British imperial power. Their security depended on maintaining good relations with the local Native Americans, who incorporated the forts into their economic and social life as well as into their strategies. T1 - Indians and British outposts in eighteenth-century America DA - c2012. CY - Gainesville : AU - Ingram, Daniel Patrick, CN - Proquest Ebook Central CN - E98.F39 PB - University Press of Florida, PP - Gainesville : PY - c2012. ID - 438866 KW - Indians of North America KW - Fortification KW - Frontier and pioneer life SN - 9780813040578 (electronic bk.) TI - Indians and British outposts in eighteenth-century America LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=846058 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=846058 ER -