The rigging material from Boscawen : setting the sails of a mid-eighteenth-century warship during the French and Indian War /
and Indian War, General Jeffrey Amherst ordered the
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | and Indian War, General Jeffrey Amherst ordered the archaeology related to the vessel. The excavation colonial freshwater warships. construction of the brig Duke of Cumberland and the discovery of the sloop Boscawen led to its excavation during the next two simmers and a multidisciplinary final years of the French muddy bottom of Lake Champlain. In 1983 the accidental of their rigging and armament they settled into the produced over 5,000 artifacts of which the 90 items related to Boscawen's rigging are presented in this sloop Boscawen. Within days of setting sail in 1759 study of the naval architecture, maritime history, and the King's Shipyard below Fort Ticonderoga. Stripped the vessels were removed from service and moored at these vessels established British naval superiority thesis. The study of these artifacts has contributed to our knowledge of the rigging of one of the earliest To secure English control of Lake Champlain in the raphics. upon the lake. At the conclusion of the war in 1763, |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 139 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-81). |