This comprehensive new history of Mobile celebrates the rich heritage Alabama's oldest city from the period of European settlement was founded
of Alabama's oldest city and commemorates the city's tricentennial from
1702 to the present.
in 1702 by French naval officer Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
Bienville named the settlement after the nearby Maubila Indians and situated
it on the west side of the protected...