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Fort Tombecbe (Fort de Tombecbé), 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 1736-37 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 Tu

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  • Fort Tombecbe (Fort de Tombecbé), 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 1736-37 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. Control passed to the British in 1763, who renamed it Fort York. In 1793 Spain acquired the site—by then the fort had been abandoned—from the Choctaw via the Treaty of Boukfouka and built a new fort, which was named Fort Confederación. It is also known as Fort Confederation. After the United States took possession, via the 1802 Treaty of Fort Confederation, it continued to be used as a trading post with the Choctaws until its eventual abandonment in the 19th century. The Fort Tombecbe site is currently owned by the University of West Alabama and the Archaeological Conservancy, and operated by the staff of the . (en)
  • Le Fort de Tombecbé, quelquefois écrit Tombeche, est un ancien fort français construit en Nouvelle-France au XVIIIe siècle. Il se trouve dans l'état de l'Alabama, à Epes, comté de Sumter, dominant un coude de la rivière Tombigbee. Il a servi de poste de traite avec la tribu Chacta (ou Choctaw). Il est possible qu'un premier fort ait été érigé au temps de la colonisation française sous Antoine Crozat (1712-1715). Il est reconstruit par Bienville en 1735, abandonné aux Anglais en 1763 (Fort York), repris par les Espagnols qui l'achètent aux Amérindiens et le reconstruisent en 1793 (Fuerte de Confederacion), cédé aux Américains (1797), puis abandonné une troisième fois par les Choctaws aux États-Unis (traité de 1802), lesquels finalement le démolissent. (fr)
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  • Plan of Fort Tombecbe in March 1737 drawn by Ignace François Broutin. (en)
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  • Fort Tombecbe (Fort de Tombecbé), 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 1736-37 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 Tu (en)
  • Le Fort de Tombecbé, quelquefois écrit Tombeche, est un ancien fort français construit en Nouvelle-France au XVIIIe siècle. Il se trouve dans l'état de l'Alabama, à Epes, comté de Sumter, dominant un coude de la rivière Tombigbee. Il a servi de poste de traite avec la tribu Chacta (ou Choctaw). (fr)
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