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Spanish rebuilt Fort Tombigbee/Fort York as Fort Confederation
Source: Alabama: A Guide to the Deep South #607
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When the Spaniards took over this region in 1783, they rebuilt the post and called it Fort Confederation. Later, when the boundary of the Spanish Territory was fixed on parallel 310, Americans occupied the old defense.
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