The Fort at Prospect Bluff
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- A new documentary from Two Egg TV, "The Fort at Prospect Bluff" is the story of the "Negro Fort" on Florida's Apalachicola River. This program features new information, a first look at recent archaeology and interviews with a group of historians and archaeologists who are breaking new ground.
The fort - originally called the British Post at Prospect Bluff - was built 20 miles upstream from Apalachicola Bay in 1814-1815 by the British. It was an important landmark of the Gulf Coast or New Orleans Campaign of the War of 1812 and served as a resupply point for thousands of Red Stick Muscogee (Creek) Native American warriors. They retreated into Spanish Florida after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Alabama. The fort - which American officials called the Negro Fort - was also an important stop on the Underground Railroad for approximately 1,000 maroons or escaped slaves who went there from Spanish Florida, the Creek Nation, Seminole country, and the United States. Approximately 300 joined the British military as members of the Colonial Marines under the command of Lt. Col. Edward Nicolls.
The British withdrew from the fort in 1815 after the end of the War of 1812, leaving its cannon and a large military depot in the hands of their former Native American and Black allies. Believing that the Negro Fort (also called Fort Negro, Fort Blount, and a variety of other names) offered a sanctuary for slaves fleeing plantations in the United States, American authorities sent a combined land and sea force to destroy the force. It was blown up after a seven day siege on July 27, 1816 with the deadliest cannon shot in U.S. history. 270 men, women, and children died in the explosion.
The site is now protected in the Apalachicola National Forest and is a landmark of African American history. It is a National Landmark and is on the national Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
This full-length documentary tells the story with compelling words, video, and interviews.
Two Egg TV
Thank you for all your diligent research and thank you for sharing it with all of us! So timely.....
Keep up the great work and documenting our history.
thank you for posting
Thanks for sharing!
McIntosh is my 6th great grandfather. His daughter my 5th great grandmother is buried in Mossy Head Fl
It be a Good movie, one with Abraham and The Seminoles it seems they touch on everyone except this subject and people in dealing with history
It really would be. We have talked many times about how great it would be to see Spike Lee or Morgan Freeman take on this topic as a film.
Great attention to History!!!
Thank you so much!
Excellent. Good to see Mark Hubbs!
Mark was a big part of the 2016 project at Prospect Bluff. He identified the field kitchens at the fort when none of the rest of us could figure out what they were.
Extremely interesting vid, loved it, glad other services were able to pitch in with ground penetrating radar, an on a side note, I subbed "MARK HUBBS" along time ago on U Tube, thx for the vid
Yes, the technology like ground penetrating radar is revealing a huge amount of information about the fort. Mark was able to identify some original field kitchens there, which helped tremendously.
There is so much that happened there it is just unbelievable. The view of the fort water battery from the river is incredible! I liked seeing the dogs search for the buried victims of the explosion. Such a huge explosion and such devastation. It is interesting to see some photos of people that survived the explosion.
Paintings rather.
have you ever researched Rosewood fl?
I wouldn't think that the dogs would detect anything after such a long time.
Surprisingly, they can. In Mississippi, they were able to detect a Native American burial site that was nearly 2,000 years old.
The fort at prospect Bluff - Dale Cox - www.amazon.com/dp/B083TNQVLK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#reader_B083TNQVLK
Cadaver Dogs?? With what do they train these dogs? And where do they get the nessesary utensils from?
They actually train them using human remains under very controlled circumstances. The remains come from people who donate their bodies for scientific purposes.
Well.. they raised a foreign flag and and " no quarters given" flag. How did that work out for them?
Foreign flag? I think that you have forgotten that Florida was not U.S. territory at that time. The United States was the invading power during this expedition. U.S. territory ended at today's Georgia line and the army and navy forces had no legal authority to enter Florida. It is true, the red flag symbolized no quarter given or requested. Which would you have preferred? Liberty or death?
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Dale Cox just released the most information ever to be written about this fort and time in history. See a preview of "The Fort at Prospect Bluff: The British Post on the Apalachicola & the Battle of Negro Fort" book by clicking here: www.amazon.com/dp/0578634627/
Those "maroons" were indigenous creek
In this case, most of them were self-liberated slaves who came from Pensacola and St. Augustine. The British records detailing their origins are pretty thorough. Of the survivors, quite a few did join the Creek and Seminoles, though.
@@TwoEggTV thats not true
The oldest bones found in America are so called negro, the oldest artifacts depict so called negro. The people you think are natives are $5 fakes thats why they are on the Dawes Rolls
@@TwoEggTV what makes you thing people are ignorant enough to believe reports from racist british conquistadors.... america is Nagaville
@@BlakJakk We don't deal in modern politics here, I will simply say that the men of color who served at Prospect Bluff were part of the British Marine Corps army and many of those of African heritage could read and write. They were not illiterate by any stretch of the imagination. They fought as elite British Colonial Marines and many of them wrote letters in their own writing about their service. Many of them, in fact, evacuated to Trinidad in 1815 and their descendants live there to this day. Others made their way to Andros Island in the Bahamas in the years after the explosion of the fort, where their descendants still live. Others, you are completely correct, were from the Seminole, Miccosukee, Creek, and Yuchi tribes and returned to them. My ancestors are Yuchi and my grandmother told stories of them. They came from many different backgrounds, but had one thing in common - they were most definitely heroes and freedom fighters.
MAROONS are people of AMERICAN INDIAN and AFRICAN BY BLOOD. Black+Red=Maroon.
The term Maroon comes from the Spanish Cimarron and is used around the world to refer to an escaped slave.
Please please know that the word "SEMINOLE" and "MAROON" are the same.. They don't want you to know that know, and back then they didn't want to scare off the new European settlers. Indians took the deal, that's why they get recognized, they were told that. The blacks "MAROONS" kept fighting.
Those "blacks" were indigenous americans, no african descent, they were the real Judah... who zionist want to be
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Is this land haunted? Considering many people died when the fort exploded.
Yes it is still occupied.
200 years what is Abraham's last name?
Hi, sorry that I missed your question earlier. Abraham never used a last name. He simply identified himself as Abraham.
Souany Waiters
My Great Great Grandfather
His name is Sauanaffe Tustenukke
Racist Caucasian’s at that time and moment gave him that name. Remember just because a person was enslaved doesn’t make them a slave. That is an illusion. If you are Yuchi or Suwanee that is who you are. Not some ignorant ass lie. His name is Sauanaffe Tustenukke that’s his last name. Okay.
@@maurlife6095 facts
FLA HORRIBLE HISTORY.
Yes, the story of the tragedy is one of great human suffering. I also find much that is inspirational, though, about the stand for freedom made at Prospect Bluff by Garcon and the other residents of the community.
Lie.....dar..... . ?
Lidar is a laser technology that shows subtle changes in the surface of the ground. It can see through tree and brush cover and is really good for identifying the remains of trenches and earthworks from old forts and battlefields.