Battlefields, Encampments, and Forts as Public Sites
Battlefields, Encampments, and Forts as Public Sites.Usually in the forefront of expansion are the sites of military posts and encampments that protected advancing explorers or soldiers. At or near many posts are the locations of battles that took place. In general, such places are called forts, used interchangeably with other terms, such as camp, post, garrison, cantonment, barracks, presidio, and the like. Many have been preserved for the public as symbols of American history.
Europeans usually built defensive stockades immediately upon arrival in the New World in order to protect their foothold on the shore. The earliest of these is probably Fort San Marcos and San Felipe II at the settlement of Santa Elena, established in 1566 at what is now the Marine Corps Base at Parris Island, South Carolina. James Fort, established by the settlers of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 was the first permanent English settlement in the New...
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