Fort Tombecbe
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Fort Tombecbe, also spelled Tombecbee and Tombeché, was a stockade fort located on the Tombigbee River near the border of French Louisiana, in what is now Sumter County, Alabama. It was constructed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville in 1736–1737 as trading post about 270 miles (430 km) upriver from Mobile, on an 80-foot (24 m) limestone bluff. Fort Tombecbe was built in Choctaw lands and would play a major role in colonial France's efforts to stop British intrusions into the area. Bienville claimed that the new fort was to protect the Choctaw from the Chickasaw. In May of 1736, Bienville, along with a force of 600 soldiers combined with a force of 600 Choctaw warriors, set out from Fort Tombecbe and attacked the Chickasaw near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi at the Battle of Ackia. Tombecbe was a major French outpost and trade depot among the Choctaw, the largest Native American group in the colony.
1736 — 1797
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Fort Tombecbe ⓘ
fort in Alabama
Plan of Fort Tombecbe as it was in March 1737.
Fort Tombecbe| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| link | page | National Register of Historic Places listed place page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | National Register of Historic Places page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | FortWiki page@ | Wikidata | ||
| site | fort | 1736 | Fort Tombecbe | fort, human settlement | Wikidata |
| commons | image | Plan of Fort Tombecbe as it was in March 1737. | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort Tombecbe | Commons | ||
