Brian,
> Could we have carried ot Manifest Destinty with the spectre of France
> and England looming over the Atlantic and threatening our shores?
Was it a spectre or a reality? I get the impression they had their hands
full and did not particularly want to bother with us, forts or no forts.
The author also comments on the brief career of the railcar mounted
howitzer.
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