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Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson

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Due to the poor living conditions at the fort, which was neglected by the French government, the troops mutinied in 1722. They killed Captain Marchand and captured the other officers, tying them up before leaving the fort. The imprisoned officers managed to escape, and with the help of nearby Creek,
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By the early 1740s, conditions had improved at the fort. Many soldiers had married French women from Mobile or intermarried with the local Creek. They and other settlers developed numerous farms nearby, which led to improved food supplies. The humid climate caused deterioration of the fort by the
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late 1740s, and the French planned for a third fort to be built. Under the direction of Captain Francois Saucier, soldiers finished the reconstruction of Fort Toulouse about 1751. It cost nearly half of the military budget for the whole Louisiana colony.
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and the incorrectly built fort was dismantled and recycled to partially construct a "correct" replica of Ft. Toulouse adjacent to the original site, allowing for a future reconstruction of Ft. Jackson on the actual site once occupied by both forts.
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in 1814, and afterwards initiated construction of a fort atop the site of the old French fort at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers. The fort was intentionally built near the sacred Creek site known as the
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programs to portray and interpret the lives of the Creek inhabitants, the French colonists and the U.S. military troops associated with the War of 1812. The fort is located southwest of Wetumpka, off of
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During the American Bicentennial in the mid-1970s an attempt was made to reconstruct Fort Toulouse, however the replica was incorrectly built upon the outline of the much larger Fort Jackson.
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that the French would withdraw trade from Fort Toulouse if they did not refuse to help build and destroy any constructed portions of South Carolina's Fort Okfuskee.
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commanded the combined American forces of Tennessee militia, U.S. regulars, and Cherokee and Creek Indian allies. Jackson defeated the Red Stick Creeks at the
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upon both the Northern Creek enemies and the Southern Creek allies, wresting 20,000,000 acres (8,100,000 ha) from all Creeks for white settlement.
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guns, ammunition, and gunpowder, iron tools, knives, glass beads, copper pots, and wool blankets in exchange for local food stuffs, fur and
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Wood, Brian M. (1984). "Fort Okfuskee: A British Challenge to Fort Toulouse aux Alibamons". In Waselkov, Gregory A. (ed.).
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for some. The British chose not to occupy the Fort, which eventually collapsed into decay. In 1776 the naturalist
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National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Fort Toulouse / Fort Jackson
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to compete with French trade at Fort Toulouse. Fort Okfuskee was garrisoned by the
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on the eastern border of the Louisiana Colony in what is now the state of Alabama.
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excavations have been continuing at the site, supervised by Dr. Craig Sheldon of
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in about 1720. Later generations of Sehoy's descendants include the Creek chiefs
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Fort Toulouse of the Alabamas and the Eighteenth-Century Indian Trade
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and cultivated friendly relations with them. The French would trade
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A portion of the modern Fort Toulouse reconstruction, taken in 2007.
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National Register of Historic Places in Elmore County, Alabama
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noted visiting the area while studying local flora and fauna.
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is located inside Fort Toulouse-Jackson State Historic Site.
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are two forts that shared the same site at the fork of the
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Fort Toulouse/Fort Jackson - Alabama Historical Commission
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Fort Jackson (disambiguation)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson is located in Alabama
Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson is located in the United States
Wetumpka, Alabama
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Coosa River
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