Strong Rosalie

The Fort Rosalie is strongly related to the history of the Colon S of the News-France in Louisiana. The November 28th 1729 the Amerindian Natchez attack by surprised the French camp of Strong Rosalie. They break the expectant mothers and make tens of prisoners. They massacre in two hours more than 200 colonists. The list of the killed people was drawn up the June 9th 1730 by the missionary and priest capuchin F. Filbert aboard French frigate Duke of Bourbon. The reprisals which follow contribute to the extinction of Natchez which was one of the Amerindian civilizations most exceptional.

Fort Rosalie was the first establishment of White at the Natchez Amerindians and was set up by the French in 1714. In the month of August 1716, a palisade was set up on a height overhanging the the Mississippi on the site which is the town of Natchez today.

After the massacre of November 28th, 1729, Natchez take again the control of the Fort until in 1730 when the territorial Governor Perrier of New-Orleans sends forces in the area. The Choctaw S fight at the sides of Perrier forwarding and, after a few days of hard combat, Natchez return the women and the French children captured before and withdraw themselves from Strong Rosalie.

The Natchez tribe settles temporarily at the place of the parish Catahoula, in 1730. One year later, another forwarding is ordered by the Governor Perrier against Natchez. The battle takes place in Louisiana. The same year, a fort of replacement is built in Natchez.

Fort Rosalie is later occupied by the British of 1763 with 1779, then by the Spaniards of 1779 with 1798, and by the Americans of 1798 to its abandonment in 1804.

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the massacre of Strong Rosalie by Natchez

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