Major General Andrew Jackson, commanding the Seventh Military District of the Army of the united States—without presidential authorization—seizes Fort St. Marks, on Apalachee Bay, Spanish enclave of East Florida.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 80.