Map of Fort Gadsden, inside the breastwork that surrounded the original Negro Fort, James Gadsden
(Wikipedia)
The U.S. attacked Fort Negro in Florida, killing nearly 300 in an effort to capture Africans that escaped enslavement, 1815.
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