Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815-1861 - Mark A. Smith - Books - The University of Alabama Press - 9780817316655 - October 4, 2009
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Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815-1861


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The system of coastal defenses built by the federal government after the War of 1812 was more than a series of forts standing guard over a watery frontier. It was an integrated and comprehensive plan of national defense developed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and it represented the nation's first peacetime defense policy.


352 pages, 7 illustrations, 9 tables

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released October 4, 2009
ISBN13 9780817316655
Publishers The University of Alabama Press
Pages 352
Dimensions 155 × 228 × 27 mm   ·   646 g

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