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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).
Later, in July 1815, de Soto complained that the Negro Fort, left armed by the British, had become a refuge for "villains of all classes and Nations," and was impacting the region's trade. He subsequently ordered a delegation to Prospect Bluff to recover Spanish-owned slaves and gather intelligence on the forces still under British command.
After the English withdrew, the region's maroons occupied what became known as the Negro Fort, which they held until 1816, when a U.S. gunboat incinerated it with hundreds of people inside.
Florida Public Archaeology Network is unveiling an exhibit called "The Maroon Marines" that looks at the largest free Black settlement in the U.S.
On the other hand, supply boats to or from Fort Scott had to pass right in front of the Negro Fort. As they were fired upon, this conveniently provided the casus belli. U.S. forces attacked and destroyed the fort in the Battle of Negro Fort (1816)—sometimes called the opening battle of the Seminole Wars. (There is disagreement about just when ...
The Red Sticks, newly supplied with arms and ammunition from the abandoned Negro Fort, felt that "widespread combat" was about to break out. When Neamathla left to bring back more arms and ammunition from Negro Fort, Clinch started building Camp Crawford, later called Fort Scott. He then compelled Neamathla to make a humiliating appearance ...
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