Fort_San_Fernando_De_Las_Barrancas

Fort San Fernando De Las Barrancas

Fort San Fernando De Las Barrancas

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Fort San Fernando De Las Barrancas was a Spanish fort in what is now Memphis, Tennessee. Established in May 1795, the fort was erected with a garrison of 150 men to defend Spanish claims of the territory at the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff.[1][2] Although Spain renounced its claim to the area in Pinckney's Treaty in 1795, it occupied the fort until either 1797 or 1798, when the Spanish dismantled the fort and established Fort Esperanza across the river near modern Marion, Arkansas.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Randal Rust. "Fort San Fernando De Las Barrancas". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  2. [2]
    White, David H. (1974). "Commandant Folch at San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1795-1796". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 33 (4): 379–388. ISSN 0040-3261.
  3. [3]
    "Chickasaw". www.tolatsga.org. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
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