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The Fort at Prospect Bluff: The British Post on the Apalachicola & the Battle of Negro Fort Kindle Edition


The deadliest cannon shot in American history was fired at the "Negro Fort" at Prospect Bluff on Florida's Apalachicola River on July 27, 1816. The resulting explosion killed more than 270 men, women, and children, and destroyed the largest free black settlement in North America. The Fort at Prospect Bluff is a remarkable look at this shocking episode of American history. The author digs deep into the letters, documents, eyewitness accounts, and military reports to tell the story with more depth and clarity than ever before. This book tells an amazing story of Native Americans fighting to preserve their lands, Maroons (escaped slaves) making a desperate stand to protect their freedom, U.S. and British troops confronting each other during the War of 1812, and a shocking attack and its bloody aftermath. This is the story of an Underground Railroad that ran south into Florida and eventually as far as Trinidad, Andros Island, and even Newfoundland.

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Dale Cox
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Dale Cox is a Southern writer and historian based in the quaint little community of Two Egg, Florida. He is the author of nineteen books, including his acclaimed study of the Fort at Prospect Bluff. Published in 2020, "The Fort at Prospect Bluff: The British Post on the Apalachicola & The Battle of Negro Fort" is the most detailed account ever written of the largest free Black settlement in North America and the deadly U.S. cannon shot that ended its existence. Cox's noted Civil War study - "The Battle of Marianna, Florida" - was named best in its category by Civil War Books & Authors. His studies of the Creek and Seminole Wars in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, including "Milly Francis: The Life & Times of the Creek Pocahontas" and "Fowltown: Neamathla, Tutalosi Talofa & the First Battle of the Seminole Wars," break new ground in Southeastern Native American scholarship.

Cox divides his time between the quaint community of Two Egg, Florida and the growing area of Dothan, Alabama. He is married with two grown children and supports a number of historic preservation causes.

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