Battle Of Mobile (1781)
Coordinates: 30°39′50.58″N 88°0′7.47″W / 30.66405°N 88.002075°W / 30.66405; -88.002075
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The Battle of Mobile was a British attempt to recapture the town of Mobile, in the British province of West Florida, from the Spanish during the American War of Independence. The Spanish had previously captured Mobile in March 1780. On January 7, 1781, a British attack against a Spanish outpost on the east side of Mobile Bay was repulsed, and the German leader of the expedition was killed.
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