Our country in war and relations with all nationsA history of war times, and American heroes on land and sea . GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT HOBART. JACKSON AND THE SPANIARDS IN FLORIDA. 183 Seminoles and Great Britain. He repaired and strength-ened a fort on the Appalachicola river, sixty miles belowthe junction of the Chattahoochie and Flint, which hestyled the British Post on the Appalachicola, and whichafterwards acquired a sad celebrity as the Negro things he did entirely, it seems, on his own responsi-bility, and without condescending to pay the slightestregard to the author


Our country in war and relations with all nationsA history of war times, and American heroes on land and sea . GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT HOBART. JACKSON AND THE SPANIARDS IN FLORIDA. 183 Seminoles and Great Britain. He repaired and strength-ened a fort on the Appalachicola river, sixty miles belowthe junction of the Chattahoochie and Flint, which hestyled the British Post on the Appalachicola, and whichafterwards acquired a sad celebrity as the Negro things he did entirely, it seems, on his own responsi-bility, and without condescending to pay the slightestregard to the authority of the Spanish governor. The Spanish and Seminoles and the negro bandits tookkindly to Nichols, who thus addressed Col. BenjaminHawkins : •British Post, Appalachicola River, May 12, 1815. In my letter to you of the 28th ult., I requested you would be so good as tomake inquiry into the murder and robberies committed on the Seminoles be-longing to the chief called Bowlegs, at the same time declaring my determinationof punishing with the utmost rigor of the law any one of our side who broke it. Nichols was for peace in


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