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Fort Ticonderoga History Online Resources:
Material Culture
General Interest
The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 (at the Library of Congress; keyword search “Ticonderoga”)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html
Bateaux and 'Battoe Men': An American Colonial Response to the Problem of Logistics in Mountain Warfare – from the New York State Military Museum
http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/articles/bateau.htm
Ceramics Database from St. Mary’s University (Canada)
http://www.smu.ca/academic/arts/anthropology/ceramics/welcome.html
Native Tech – Native American Technology & Art: An internet resource for indigenous ethno-technology focusing on the arts of Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples, providing historical & contemporary background with instructional how-to's & references.
http://www.nativetech.org/
Firearms
An Essay on Shooting by Gervais François Magné de Marolles (Dublin, 1789) – covers the production and use of civilian guns, as well as the results of an eighteenth-century test about barrel length and its effect on range
http://books.google.com/books?id=-Q0AAAAAQAAJ&printsec=
frontcover&dq=essay+on+shooting&as_brr=1#PPR1,M1
Swords & Knives
The School of Fencing by Domenico Angelo (1787)
http://books.google.com/books?id=K0cCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=
frontcover&dq=The+School+of+Fencing&lr=&as_brr=0#PPP7,M1
Online period sword and fencing manuals at the Association for Historic Fencing
http://www.ahfi.org/resources.php
Online Sword fighting manuals at the Linacre School of Defense
http://www.sirwilliamhope.org/Library/
The Fencer’s Guide by A. Lonnergan (London, 1771)
http://books.google.com/books?id=EAgZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontc
over&dq=The+Fencer%27s+Guide#PPR7,M1
Crooked Knife Online Exhibit at University of Maine
http://www.umaine.edu/HudsonMuseum/crknives/pages/crooknife1.html
General Material Culture
Chipstone Foundation
http://www.chipstone.net/
Digital Library for Decorative Arts and Material Culture at University of Wisconsin
http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/