SW0136 Nicoll’s Outpost Yields War Site Clues to First Seminole War

Seminole Wars Authority

We have devoted several episodes in our podcast the Fort at Prospect Bluff, known best as the “Negro Fort” on the Apalachicola River in Florida’s panhandle. During the War of 1812, the British also built a smaller fort, which historians dub Nicolls’ Outpost. They and their Seminole allies used this as a base to conduct offensive operations into Georgia and Alabama during that conflict. Seminole Indians later used it to stage attacks on the US Army in the First Seminole War. And Historian Dale Cox is here to tell us all about it. His new, hardback edition of Nicoll's Outpost, is expanded from the softcover, with additional chapters and revised content. It is now available from booksellers.

Map sketches of vicinity in 1815 and 1817

Painting of British Royal Marine Edward Nicolls, whose name became permanently associated with the outpost when historian Mark Boyd tagged it as Nicolls' Outpost in the 1950s.

Host Patrick Swan is a board member with the Seminole Wars Foundation. This podcast is recorded at the homestead of the Seminole Wars Foundation in Bushnell, Fla.

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