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Battle of Fort Charlotte
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Battle of Fort Charlotte
The
Battle of Fort Charlotte
or the
Siege of Fort Charlotte
was a two-week siege conducted by Spanish
General
Bernardo de Gálvez
against the
British
fortifications guarding the port of
Mobile
(which was then in the British province of
West Florida
, and now in
Alabama
) during the
Anglo-Spanish War of 1779-1783
.
Fort Charlotte
was the last remaining British frontier post capable of threatening
New Orleans
in
Spanish Louisiana
. Its fall drove the British from the western reaches of
West Florida
and reduced the British military presence in West Florida to its capital,
Pensacola
.
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