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ID: 6002071
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6002071
Record Type:
administrative
Fort Mims (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 10 48 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 31.1805
decimal degrees
Long: 087 50 16 W
degrees minutes
Long: -87.8380
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of major battle with Amerindians in Western expansion of the United States, in which Red Sticks faction of Creeks killed some 553 settlers in crude fortification on Lake Tensaw, N of Mobile.
Names:
Fort Mims
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ft. Mims
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
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United States
(nation) (
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Alabama
(state) (
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Baldwin
(county) (
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Fort Mims
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
fort (
H
)
battlefield (
H
)
............
1813
Sources and Contributors:
Fort Mims..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 304
Ft. Mims..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 304
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
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