Fort Gaines, Georgia: A Military History

by Dale Cox

Fort Gaines was a United States military post built on the Georgia frontier in 1816. It served to stifle Native American resistance to the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which seized 22 million acres of land from the Muscogee or Creek people in present-day Georgia and Alabama. The fort played a key role in both the Prospect Bluff or Negro Fort campaign of 1816 and the First Seminole War of 1817-1818. It was a vital outpost on the front lines of the internal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692802258
• ISBN13: 9780692802250
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Old Kitchen Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"