summary of battle of new orleans  http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/jela/lost_riverfront/part_1.pdf

Niles' Register account of 2nd Battle of Ft. Bowyer  http://archive.org/stream/nilesweeklyregis08balt/nilesweeklyregis08balt_djvu.txt

British Indian Policy  http://www.scribd.com/doc/25066242/DID-MILITARY-HONOUR-HINDER-THE-ROYAL-NAVY-S-EFFECTIVE-USE-OF-NORTH-AMERICAN-INDIANS-IN-THE-GULF-OF-MEXICO-CAMPAIGN-IN-THE-WAR-OF-1812

GENERAL JAMES WILKINSON CLAIMED HE HAD OWNED DAUPHIN ISLAND DURING THE SPANISH REGIME SINCE MARCH 29, 1806 AND HE CLAIMED AMERICAN TITLE AFTER HE RAISED THE AMERICAN FLAG OVER MOBILE ON APRIL 15, 1813.

SEE "No. 14" on PAGE 499 of AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, PUBLIC LANDS, VOLUME 5 where representatives of his estate were denied title by the American land commissioners in 1828.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=032/llsp032.db&recNum=519

CHAMP AND THE MILLENIALS

http://www.bplonline.org/resources/archives/Architecture/Jemison.aspx

Check out the garbled "facts" used by THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE'S (EMERITUS) ROGER KENNEDY, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY in LESS THAN ONE PARAGRAPH of his 2003 book, MR. JEFFERSON'S LOST CAUSE.

James Innerarity was entrusted with weapons and supplies for the Indians and to keep up the good work of stirring up the blacks.(ed. note: COMPLETEY UNTRUE AND AN ABSOLUTELY INSANE STATEMENT ABOUT James Innerarity who was elected THE FIRST AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE MOBILE TOWN COUNCIL IN MARCH 1814! HE PROVIDED JACKSON WITH THE MOST VALUABLE INTELLIGENCE ABOUT THE BRITISH INVASION FOR THE NEW ORLEANS CAMPAIGN. HIS COMPANY, JOHN FORBES AND  CO.,who this idiot calls "THE FIRM", LOST ITS ASS IN THE WAR OF 1812 including it's slaves) Innerarity withheld those supplies put into his care, whereupon the Seminoles and Red Sticks showed their economic sophistication by annulling the cessions of land just made to The Firm and scalping those of its employees who strayed into the backcountry.(ed. note: THIS WRITER KNOWS OF NO WAR SUPPLIES BEING PROVIDED BY JOHN FORBES AND CO. TO WARRING INDIANS AND BLACKS AND ALSO KNOWS OF NO MURDERS OF JOHN FORBES and CO. EMPLOYEES DURING THE WAR OF 1812. THE CREEK NATIONAL COUNCIL cleared most of their debts with an 1804 land grant called  THE FORBES PURCHASE. The Red Sticks and the Seminoles had no tribal council and NO AUTHORITY TO ANNUL A DAMN THING. In 1835 THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ruled that the entire 1.25 million acre FORBES PURCHASE east of the Apalachicola was perfectly legal and this comes down to us to this day as A LEGAL BASIS FOR CONTRACT LAW IN THIS COUNTY AND THIS LAND GRANT WAS NEGOTIATED IN PRESENT-DAY HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA, IN 1804 BY NONE OTHER THAN MOBILE'S JAMES INNERARITY!)
Still under misapprehensions about the loyalty of the former Tories, the British commander at Pensacola informed its Spanish governor of his plans to attack Fort Bowyer, Mobile and then New Orleans. The governor confided in his confessor, Father James Coleman. Coleman promptly passed the word to another visitor to his confessional – Innerarity.(ed. note: The deluded author is now talking about James Innerarity's brother, Pensacola's John Innerarity) Innerarity dispatched an agent named McVoy posthaste to Fort Bowyer, to acquaint the Americans with what the British had in mind. Forewarned, the garrison made a massacre of the British assault.(ed. note: NOT ONLY WAS THE FIRST BATTLE OF FORT BOWYER NOT A MASSACRE OF THE BRITISH BUT THE BRITISH MISREAD AMERICAN STRENGTH IN MOBILE BAY AND ABANDONED IT AS A POINT OF INVASION FOR THE CONQUEST OF NEW ORLEANS.)  Finally the British understood. After retreating to The Firm’s plantation next to the fort,(ed. note: John Forbes and Co. had a store, lumber mill and brick kiln at Bon Secour, many miles from Fort Bowyer) they freed nine hundred slaves (ed. note: TEN SLAVES! and did a total of $5,890 damage) and put to the torch all its buildings. Some of those slaves subsequently joined the coalition against the Americans, as did many released from The Firm’s plantations in East Florida. An indignant Inneraritiy wrote John Forbes: “Time was when the name of Englishman was honorable, now it is synonymous with nay it is a term to designate a man capable of every thing that is low, vile, base, villainous, atrocious.”(ed. note: THIS IS FROM A LETTER JAMES INNERARITY WROTE HIS BROTHER JOHN ON NOVEMBER 18, 1814, THE SAME MONTH OF JACKSON'S CAPTURE OF PENSACOLA FROM THE BRITISH)
Comfortably within the fortifications of Mobile,  Jackson laughed at the British flotilla beyond the barrier islands and commenced moving at his own pace against Pensacola, the possession of Spain, a neutral state.(ed. note: JACKSON AND HIS MEN ANTICIPATED AN IMMEDIATE INVASION OF MOBILE BY THE BRITISH. MOBILE HAD NO FORTIFICATIONS! FORT CHARLOTTE WAS A JOKE WHEN GALVEZ TOOK IT IN 1780! NEUTRAL SPAIN'S PENSACOLA HAD BEEN INVADED BY THE FOE OF THE UNITED STATES!)

THE GREATEST ALLIANCE THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN BEGAN ALMOST 200 YEARS AGO IN THE WATERS OFF DAUPHIN ISLAND http://mobilebicentennial.blogspot.com

From Parton's LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON, pages 304 and 305

...the opening fortunes of the 
British were suddenly closed by an event which 

occurred on the 13th, just two days after 

the surrender of Fort Bowyer. 
On that day Mr. R. D. Shepherd(ed. note:aide 

to Commodore Patterson) was standing on the 

deck of the TONNANT conversing with Admiral Malcolm

, a gentleman of the most amiable and genial

 manners, when a gig approached, 

with an officer, who coming aboard the

 TONNANT presented to 
the admiral a package. On opening and reading 

the contents, Admiral Malcolm took off his cap and gave a loud hurrah. 

Then turning to Mr. Shepherd, he seized his hand 

and grasping it warmly, exclaimed," 'Good news! 

Good news! We are friends. The BRAZEN has just 

arrived outside with the news 

of peace. I am delighted !'" adding

, in an under tone, 

" ' I have hated this war 

from the beginning.' "

200 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH ON THE GULF COAST

June, 1814: U.S. General Flournoy ordered Colonel John Bowyer to abandon Fort Bowyer on Mobile Point.

June 8, 1814: An American who had seen a British Naval ship recently arrive at Pensacola Bay embarked Pensacola and sailed toward Bay St. Louis.

June 17, 1814: This American arrived in Bay St. Louis  and told General Flournoy that a tender schooner for the HMS Orpheus had arrived in Pensacola and British sailors had reported that they had landed 5000 stand of arms and ammunition in that proportion at the mouth of the Apalachicola.  Flournoy also learned that John Innerarity in Pensacola had received a letter from his clerk on the Apalachicola that the British had arrived and had begun to build a magazine to receive arms less than a mile from their John Forbes & Co. store at Prospect Bluff on the east bank of the Apalachicola.

200 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH ON THE GULF COAST

June 20, 1814: Andrew Jackson accepted his appointment as Major General with command over the Seventh Military District of Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi Territory (the future states of Alabama and Mississippi).

June 21, 1814: U.S. Creek Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins at Ft. Hawkins in Georgia wrote Secretary of War Armstrong that Indians had told him that the HMS Orpheus had disembarked 50 British Marines at the Apalachicola and left saying they would return in 25 days. Four 100 pound kegs of cartridges as well as arms were given to the Indians.

June 25, 1814: General Jackson ignored orders from Secretary of War Armstrong telling him to disband his army and to go back home.

June 27, 1814: General Jackson wrote Secretary of War Armstrong about the necessity of taking Pensacola away from the British who would soon sail into Pensacola Bay, occupy the Spanish forts and control the town.

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