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Fort Stoddert
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Fort Stoddert
Fort Stoddert
was a
stockade
fort in the
Mississippi Territory
, in what is today
Alabama
. It was located on a bluff of the
Mobile River
, near modern
Mount Vernon
, close to the confluence of the
Tombigbee
and
Alabama Rivers
. It served as the western terminus of the
Federal Road
which ran through
Creek
lands to Fort Wilkinson in
Georgia
. The fort, built in 1799, was named for
Benjamin Stoddert
, the secretary to the
Continental
Board of War
during the
American Revolution
and
Secretary of the Navy
during the
Quasi War
. Fort Stoddert was built by the
United States
to keep the peace by preventing its own settlers in the
Tombigbee District
from attacking the
Spanish
in the
Mobile District
.
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