|  | Massacre Island | |  | | Massacre Island | | Twelve-year-old Nicolas de La Salle and his family sailed to La Louisiane (French Louisiana) with Governor Iberville to start a French settlement on the Gulf coast. Nicolas's father was with the explorer, Robert Cavelier de La Salle, when he reached ... | | | $17.95 | |  |
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| | | Historical Fiction | Home » » » » Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Library Alabama Classics) | | | | | | | Description: | | Offers to American historiography a microcosmic view of an early French colonial settlement in the United States, recreating the lives of the fort occupants in minute detail. Higginbotham has made extensive use of Spanish archives in the research of early American history. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Jay Higginbotham | | Paperback:
| 592 pages | | Publisher:
| University Alabama Press | | Publication Date:
| March 30, 1991 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0817305289 | | Package Length:
| 9.29 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.03 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.69 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiana, 1702-1711Aug 14, 2009
Scholarly and well documented but at the same time most readable. I had borrowed a copy of the book before I purchased it from Amazon so I knew what I was getting. Now that I have the book in hand, I am most pleased to have purchased it. One of the things that makes this book so interesting to me is that I live near Natchitoches, Louisiana. Natchitoches was founded in 1714 and is the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase Territory. My wife's grandfather, Francois Derbanne was under commission from King Louis XV of France as the "Keeper of the King's Storehouse and Paymaster to the Militia". The Fort St. Jean Baptiste, 1716, was where he was posted with Louis Juchereau de St Denis the Founder of Natchitoches. They had come from Mobile on a trade mission to Natchitoches. The book helped me to understand that Mobile was to French Louisiana what Jamestown was to the English colonies. There is also a fascinating account of Derbanne being captured by pirates falsely flying the flag of France. Jay Higginboth writes history that reads like a novel. He did his research well and has a full bibliography. I highly recommend this book.
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 Review of "Old Mobile" by a non-historianAug 15, 2000
This comprehensive work is certainly not light reading, but it offers a degree of detail about the history of Mobile that is unavailable in other histories of the area. The author is careful to cite original documents, where available, to verify the information. The reader is reassured of the authoratative nature of the work. It is particularly helpful in substantiating information in less extensive narratives.
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