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Forts on the Frontier

2013· book-chapter· en· W2503659621 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
James L. Hart

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity Press of Florida eBooks · 2013
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFrontierArtilleryInfantryChokeEngineeringMilitary EngineerSiegeHistoryPeriod (music)ArchaeologyManagementOperations researchCivil engineeringPolitical scienceLawArtMilitary science

Abstract

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This chapter evaluates academic fortification concepts as applied in North America, using French fort St. Frederic as an example. Fort St. Frederick was located at the Lake Champlain choke point, a short distance north of Fort Ticonderoga. With construction based in part on Vauban-style fortification principles current in Europe, its adaptation to frontier conditions was nonetheless fairly rapid. Vauban’s defensive principles, explained in a number of the period’s treatises and manuals, served as the basis for formal training in the engineering corps of the major powers. In New France, military engineers constructed a chain of fortifications in the St. Lawrence and Richelieu valleys that were adapted to conditions very different from those in Europe. In particular, these fortifications were not designed to withstand artillery sieges conducted in the European manner. In 1752, French military engineer Louis Franquet inspected the fortifications of New France. His reports describe the ways in which the forts of New France were adapted to local conditions while concluding that war in Canada is not conducted “as it is done in Europe.”

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.069
Threshold uncertainty score0.137

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0260.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.155
Teacher spread0.128 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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