Fort Nogales

[2] In 1789, a special Spanish mission to the Choctaw in 1791 was sent to negotiate continued overland access to the fort via the Natchez Trace and other Indigenous trails.

Twelve cannon were mounted in the river battery, and a blockhouse with four howitzers was placed on an eminence in the rear, included in the quadrangle, within which, also, were a powder magazine, the commander's house and barracks for two hundred men."

[6] According to American historian Marion Bragg, "Victor Collot, a French general who made a voyage down the Mississippi in 1796, sneered at the fortifications the Spanish had constructed on the bluff in 1791.

"[10] The treaties were mutual defense agreements that promised "annual supplies and gifts to the tribes," with the larger geopolitical intent of compelling Anglo-American settlers "to stay out of the Indian lands" and the Louisiana region generally.

The commander of the fort, a Creole named Elias Beauregard, evacuated the post "in March, 1798, after giving four days notice to Capt.

General Wilkinson arrived August 26th and immediately concentrated the troops at Loftus Heights, where he constructed a strong earth work, magazines and barracks, and designated it Fort Adams.

The landmark of Fort McHenry was "involved in the land schemes of the fraudulent Yazoo Company, entailing much litigation with regard to title.