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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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