Fort Petites Coquilles - ber the 12th 1813

ID: 5920 ~ Source: Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/2012591000/ ~ Creator: Lafon, Barthélémy, 1769-1820, cartographer. United States. War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers, former owner. ~ Date: 1813
This file appears in: Fort Pike
A blue, red and brown watercolor sketch showing one rough version and one more polished version of a fort layout from above.

Relief shown pictorially.
-Shows Fort Petites Coquilles, a small, unfinished fort at the time of the War of 1812. In 1818, Fort Pike was built at the site of Fort Petites Coquilles.

This file appears in: Fort Pike

By Kalie A. Rhodes & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor
In 1819, President James Monroe commissioned Fort Pike’s construction alongside six other forts on the Louisiana coast. [2] Originally known as Fort Petites Coquilles, Monroe commissioned the fort…