Fort Mose, originally known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (Royal Grace of Saint Teresa of Mose), and later as Fort Mose, or alternatively, Fort...
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The Battle of Fort Mose (often called Bloody Mose, or Bloody Moosa) was a significant action of the War of Jenkins' Ear that took place on June 14, 1740...
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Spanish Empire in Florida during the 18th-century. He was a leader of Fort Mose, the first free Black settlement in North America. Born in The Gambia...
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This new community, Fort Mose, would serve as a military outpost and buffer for St. Augustine, as the men accepted into Fort Mose had enlisted in the...
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to return them to slavery. (A much smaller example was Fort Mose, near St. Augustine.) The fort was destroyed in 1816 when a "hot cannon ball" landed in...
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Castillo de San Marcos (redirect from Fort marion)
quickly led to the first free Black settlement in the future United States (Fort Mose, formed just north of St Augustine). Ownership of the Castillo was transferred...
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Bulow Plantation Ruins Dade Battlefield DeSoto Site Dudley Farm Fort Foster Fort Mose Fort Zachary Taylor Gamble Plantation Indian Key Koreshan Marjorie...
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free community of ex-slaves, known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, or Fort Mose, to serve as a defensive outpost two miles north of St. Augustine...
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the black settlement known as Fort Mose developed near St. Augustine and was later fortified. There were two known Fort Mose sites in the eighteenth century...
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objective, Oglethorpe first captured Fort San Diego, Fort Picolotta, Fort San Francisco de Pupo, and Fort Mose, the first free black settlement in America...
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Dry Tortugas National Park (redirect from Fort Jefferson National Monument)
Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most...
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Underground Railroad—Fort Mose Site". Nps.gov. Archived from the original on April 26, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2016. "Fort Mose Historical Society"....
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Spanish established Fort Mose for the free Blacks in the St. Augustine area in 1738. In 1806, enslaved people arrived at the Stone Fort in Nacogdoches, Texas...
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Seminole Wars (section Creek War and the Negro Fort)
Florida over the ensuing decades, with most settling near St. Augustine at Fort Mose and a few living amongst the Seminole, who treated them with varying levels...
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Browning 1975, p. 97. branmarc60 (13 June 2018). "Bloody Battle of Fort Mose". Fort Mose Historical Society. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019....
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War. Fort Micanopy, Second Seminole War Fort Mitchell Fort Mose Fort Myakka Fort Myers Fort New Smyrna - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Ogden Fort Peyton...
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consultant Moše, Slovenia, a village Mose, North Dakota, a community in the United States Fort Mose, Florida, United States – see Fort Mose Historic State...
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Angola, Florida (category Negro Fort)
escaped to the Bahamas attended. Merikins Black Seminoles Fort Mose Historic State Park Negro Fort Prospect Bluff Historic Sites Seminole Wars List of ghost...
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from Pender County, NC, to St. Johns County, FL in 2006 and helped raise Fort Mose in St. Augustine as both a national historical site and part of the corridor...
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Florida learned from English colonists taken prisoner in the recapture of Fort Mose during the siege of St. Augustine that "they have learned of the preparation...
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Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County. It was established...
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Fort Mose – A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free Black militia and Indian auxiliaries storms Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort...
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The Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, also known simply as Fort Taylor, is a Florida State Park and National Historic Landmark centered on a Civil...
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Fort Matanzas National Monument (Spanish: Fuerte Matanzas) is the site where the Spanish built a fort. It was designated a United States National Monument...
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granted freedom to enslaved people fleeing the Thirteen Colonies. Fort Mose became another fort, populated by free black militiamen and their families, serving...
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African American officer earns freedom in Florida, National Park Service "Fort Mose. America's Black Colonial Fortress of Freedom". Florida Museum of Natural...
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Hotel Ponce de Leon Llambias House St.August. Town Plan Historic District Fort Mose site The National Historic Landmarks in Florida are representations of...
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Spanish-held land. After capturing the Spanish outposts of Fort San Diego, Fort Pupo, Fort Picolata and Fort Mose, he marched his troops toward St. Augustine. On...
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"Sold South", fiction by Jesmyn Ward "Capitalism" by Matthew Desmond "Fort Mose", poem by Tyehimba Jess "Before His Execution", poem by Tim Seibles "Politics"...
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Spanish organized the black volunteers into a militia; their settlement at Fort Mosé, founded in 1738, was the first legally sanctioned free black town in...
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