Fort Mims (Ala.)
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معلومات حول الهوية:
الاسم الرئيس (بالعبرية)
פורט מימס (אלבמה)
الاسم الرئيس (باللاتينية)
Fort Mims (Ala.)
صِيَغ اسمية أخرى
Mims, Fort (Ala.)
إحداثيات
-87.83797 -87.83797 31.1805 31.1805 (gooearth )
موضوع ذو صلة
Fortification Alabama
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MARC
أرقام تعريفية أخرى
Wikidata:
Q2888531
Library of congress:
sh 99011498
مصادر المعلومات
- Work cat.: NUCMC data from Univ. of West Fla., Spec. Coll. Dept. for Holmes, T.G. Notes taken from the lips of Dr. Thomas G. Holmes in relation to various expeditions made by Captain Blue, Colonel Benton, and others in 1814(typescript on the history of Fort Mims)
- Enyc. of historic forts(Fort Mims; famous in early 19th-century history, situated approx. 12 miles north of Stockton, Baldwin Co., Ala.; during summer of 1813 area settlers build a stockade surrounding the home of Samuel Mims who operated a ferry on the Alabama River; square fort enclosing an acre of ground, large formidable gates in the eastern and western curtains; blockhouse begun but never finished; at time of massacre held 553 persons; Aug. 30, 1813 a thousand warriors stormed through an open gate; carnage lasted 2 to 3 hours with only 36 white survivors; 1955 5 acre site donated to the state of Ala.; Sept. 1972 site was listed on National Register of Historic Places; monument erected by U.D.C. to mark approximate site of Fort Mims)