User talk:John Stanton

I have just created a user account, and am now officially part of your site!

I'm not too swift on this kind of thing. I got to the place where I can leave you messages through the link you provided, but don't know how to get here through the web site. I only get to User talk:John Weaver. Do I leave messages at that location or is there a way to go from there to here? Sorry about being "discussion group challenged"!

John

Welcome aboard! You can leave messages on any Talk or Discussion page and I will find it. You can see my personal page at User:John Stanton and you have a personal page at User:Jrweaver and a user talk page at User talk:Jrweaver. John 23:52, 26 January 2008 (EST)

John - I found it! An old dog can learn some new tricks after all.

I responded to your e-mail with the two forts I forgot - Hancock and the Advanced Redoubt. I'm now up to 42 forts.

Not listed as forts are the appurtenant structures. Fort Winthrop, for example, in Boston Harbor is not listed as a fort. The towers at Charleston, Tybee Island, Key West (2), and New Orleans (2) and the battery at Bayou Bienvenue (Battery Bienvenue) are also not part of the list of 42.

I also didn't include the Northern Frontier forts, as Totten did not include them is the system in his reports. He listed them as a separate entity. He stated that the forts of the Third System were to be manned by militia artillery, while the Northern Frontier forts were to be manned by regular army. This seems like a minor difference, but it was really representative of a whole different philosophy of defense.

Sorry - once I get started it's hard to turn off!

I better sign off for the night. I've got a miserable meeting at 8:00 AM tomorrow. I'll be the one dealing out the misery, but it still won't be much fun for anyone there - including my boss and his boss. I'm not looking forward to it!

Take care, John

Thanks for clearing things up for me. I moved some of your excellent comments to the Third System Forts page and I'll work on better integrating them as time allows. Any suggestions/edits welcome. John 22:28, 29 January 2008 (EST)

Hello

Hi John, I have wanted to add some Michigan/Indiana and Ontario forts for a while, thought I would give it a shot now! :-) Thanks for the welcome :-) ~~ MarkDilley

Hi Mark, with the recent update to MW 1.12 my create forts form has a slight bug so it messes up the map code :-( Not to worry I'll fix any that go bad! John 21:24, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Great John, will point other interested folks from my clan to here now that I have set foot in it. Best, MarkDilley

Hi

Hey John I saw your message on my talk page. I think I am ready for those picture pointers. Nightshade 17:56, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh and on a side note I live in Salem as well.

No problem, I'll work on the Fort Columbia pages, standardizing them and such. I'll do as much as I can on that. I'll see you in a while.

Ok

Ok John I am ready to receive picture pointers.

Pictures

Hi John. Could you do me a big favor. I need the following images and their pages removed

Crenshaw-04.jpg

I deleted it John 23:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

This picture is a duplicate that I accidentally uploaded to the site. Thanks!

Fort Columbia Batteries

Hi John. Say I was wondering what happened to the Fort Columbia batteries wiki pages. They seemed to disappear on us! Is there any way to restore them? I also noticed that the battery pages for other forts (that had them) were gone as well.