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To the officers and men of the Regular Army, National Guard, Coast Guard,
Navy and Reserve units, who served at Fort Miles and Fort Saulsbury in defense of the United States against attack in war
and peace.
"A task well done is its own reward"
We have no choice
but to strike at the terrorist organizations wherever we can reach them. That is our obligation to ourselves and to peace.
We shall fullfil that obligation undauntedly.
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (after the Munich Olympics
Massacre, September 12, 1972)
GOD BLESS AMERICA
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Limited signed first edition of Fort Saulsbury only $10.95
This is the story of the acquisition and building of a little-known fort on the Delaware Bay. This is a true
account of the beginning and end of a mighty fort during two World Wars. It is, in addition, about the Mispillion area where
the fort was built. The characters all lived and their actual names are used. Fort Saulsbury was armed with four 12 inch sea-coast-guns
capable of lobbing shells 12 miles into the Delaware Bay... |
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The onset of war in the Atlantic found harbor defenses of the Delaware in deplorable condition. Spanish
American War era fortifications at Fort Delaware, Fort Mott, and Fort DuPont were all that stood between an aggressor and
the industries of the Delaware Valley. Further down river, slightly more modern Fort Saulsbury brushed the dust off their
weapons and prepared for a fight. As the new defensive line was drawn in the sand at Cape Henlopen, these forts began to close
or to serve rear echelon functions. |
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