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| History |
| The settlement was first established in 1702,
at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River, as the capital of the French colony
of Louisiana. Following a series of floods, the town was relocated downriver to
its present location near the head of Mobile Bay in 1711. The capital of Louisiana
was moved to New Orleans in 1723 and Mobile was relegated to the role of frontier
town and trading post. | | Mobile
was transferred to the British in 1763 as a result of the Treaty of Paris. The
immediate British enforcement of race codes threw the denizens of the French-derived
culture into chaos. The French Creole world was noted for its laissez-faire attitude
to racial matters and the stringent English codes chased many of Mobile's Creole
residents westward into Louisiana. It also marked a slight cultural division point
between Mobile and the rest of the French-founded coast. | | The
port town was captured by the Spanish in 1780 during the American Revolutionary
War. The Spanish held Mobile until 1814 when it was captured by the American General
Wilkinson; by then it was the second largest seaport on the Gulf Coast.The Cotton
Boom of the early 19th century brought an explosion of commerce to what had been
a sleepy frontier town. By the 1850s, Mobile was one of the 4 busiest ports in
the country. | | Mobile grew substantially
in the period leading up to the American Civil War when it was heavily fortified
and held by the Confederates. Union naval forces established a blockade under
the command of Admiral David Farragut. Farragut did not attack the city until
August 1864. The ensuing Battle of Mobile Bay was a Union victory but the city
held out for another nine months. During the later federal occupation of the city,
in May, 1865, an ammunition depot explosion -- called the great Mobile magazine
explosion -- killed some 300 people. | | |
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