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Negro Fort was a short-lived fortification built by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812, in a remote part of what was at the time Spanish Florida.It was intended to support a never-realized British attack on the U.S. via its southwest border, [1] by means of which they could "free all these Southern Countries [states] from the Yoke of the Americans".
The Fort at Prospect Bluff, The British Post on the Apalachicola and the Battle of Negro Fort. Old Kitchen Media. ISBN 978-0578634623. Millett, Nathaniel (2015). Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0813060866. Saunt, Claudio (1999).
The Fort at Prospect Bluff, the British Post on the Apalachicola and the Battle of Negro Fort. Old Kitchen Media. ISBN 978-0578634623. Baram, Uzi (2015). "Including maroon history on the Florida Gulf Coast : archaeology and the struggle for freedom on the early 19th-century Manatee River". In Delle, James A. (ed.).
Florida Public Archaeology Network is unveiling an exhibit called "The Maroon Marines" that looks at the largest free Black settlement in the U.S.
Gaines said he intended to supply Fort Scott from New Orleans via the Apalachicola River. As this would mean passing through Spanish territory and past the Negro Fort, it would allow the U.S. Army to keep an eye on the Seminole and the Negro Fort. If the fort fired on the supply boats, the Americans would have an excuse to destroy it. [73]
Abraham had been a member of the Corps of Colonial Marines and was present at, and taken into custody, at the Battle of Negro Fort In custody only a short time, he was a Black Seminole leader, and interpreter for the Seminoles, who played a critical role during the Second Seminole War. [44]: 51 Eustis burned the town before moving on to Volusia.
The site of Fort Mose, where Menéndez led the militia, was designated as a National Historic Landmark by the United States in 1995. [1] The original site was rediscovered in an archeological dig in the 1980s and has been protected as Fort Mose Historic State Park, owned and run by the Florida Park Service.
Authorized by the Emancipation Proclamation, the regiment consisted of African-American enlisted men commanded by white officers. [2] The 54th Massachusetts was a major force in the pioneering of African American civil war regiments, with 150 all black regiments being raised after the raising of the 54th Massachusetts. [3]