Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort (14773912664)

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Title: Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hamilton, Peter J. (Peter Joseph), 1859-1927
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Hougthon Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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\ MOBILI.K, 1706? THE GREAT CHANGE OF BASE. 85 among the Choctaws, and Sieur de Valligny (or Walligny) withhis twenty-five French, recently arrived on the Renomm^e, andeight Apalaches departed to Fish River across the bay, — thefirst mention of the stream. This was not a quartering of soldierson the natives, for Penicauts account shows that the Indians, es-pecially the young women, enjoyed it as much as the French. Itwas really a stroke of policy.^ Two events occurred that materially affected the fate of thecolony. The one was the descent of English freebooters fromJamaica, who attacked and burned the settlement on DauphineIsland, reducing the people to absolute poverty. This fulfilledBienvilles prophecy. The French in the fort on the river knewnothing of this event for four days, and in the mean time the free-booters escaped, apparently without damage. As if this was notenough, there came in the early spring an almost unprecedentedriver flood, lasting a month, which drowned out not