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"Remember Mobile" by Caldwell Delaney - text
Clark 5. Y/heather - illustrator 1?69 - Mobile, Ala. - Tne Haunted 3ook Shop
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By Act of May 14, 1BL2, Mobile and the district from the ^earl to the ^erdido Rivers were annexed to the ;.K. ;	Mississippi Territory.
;	(Spain	threw her ports open to the English)
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i?~'	Congress	could	not	stand	seeing	ports claii.iod. as "J. S.
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\	territory used by tne enemy. Gen. Wilkinson, then	at	Mew
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i"	Orleans, wu= ordered to seize^ Mobile.
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Wilkinson?s ships ran ^(Jro?jnd, cap^izea, fired up-on one another; the General was almost crowned and tne su_.jpl..es were lost or damaged.
But tne garrison .it Dauphine Island was tak^n	by	surpris*
and foicea tc retire, Le.vin^ the mouth of the bay	unguarded.
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