BASTIONS ON THE BORDER: The Great Stone Forts at Rouses Point on Lake Champlain

October 4, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

America's Historic Lakes is pleased to announce that South Hero, Vermont author and historian Jim Millard's newest book is now available.

BASTIONS ON THE BORDER:

The Great Stone Forts at Rouses Point on Lake Champlain

This important new book, a decade in the writing, covers in great detail the remarkable story of the last fortifications erected on Lake Champlain. The book examines the long misunderstood story of Fort "Blunder", constructed here between 1816-1818, and explains how it was that this first fort was actually built on Canadian soil while a second, larger fort, built at the same location was not. Millard clears up  much of the mystery surrounding the border controversy between the US and Canada/Great Britain and shows how close the nations actually came to war again after the War of 1812.

The 212 page book utilizes original plans, documents and vintage photos to explain how huge Fort Montgomery was built over a thirty-year period and how it was maintained, usually by a "garrison" of one man. It examines the fort, then and now, in great detail, and finally, shows how it was largely demolished during the Depression; its great limestone blocks crushed as fill for the new Rouses Point-Alburgh Bridge.

"Bastions on the Border..." is the second book Millard has written on the fortifications in the Rouses Point, New York/Alburgh, Vermont area. It features over 200 photos and illustrations, most never before published.

More information about Vermont author Jim Millard:

http://www.historiclakes.org/jmillard/jmillard.html

Published by America's Historic Lakes 

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