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“. . . this distant and isolated post:” Fort Tombecbé and Frontier Community (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Dumas.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The French established Fort Tombecbé in present-day Alabama in 1736 to secure their alliance with the Choctaws and to more firmly establish their presence in a region vulnerable to English takeover. During the following twenty-seven years, hundreds of Choctaws visited the fort to trade and confer, and they eventually...