Steamboat Monmouth Disaster
The steamboat ''Monmouth'' disaster of October 31, 1837, killed approximately 311 Muscogee people who were being Forced displacement, forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland in the southern United States to the Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. The deaths were the result of a nighttime boat collision on the Mississippi River just north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The U.S. Army ("the Alabama Emigrating Co. through the agency of Col. W. A. Campbell") hired three steamboats at New Orleans, the ''Yazoo'', the ''John Newton'', and the ''Monmouth'', to move the "Upper Creeks" band of Muscogee to the Great Plains. Some 700 passengers were put on board the ''Monmouth''. En route from New Orleans to the Arkansas River, near Prophet Island (now Profit Island, ), in drizzly dark conditions, the negligently crewed ''Monmouth'' collided with a steamer called ''Warren'' that was towing a ship called ''Trenton'' or ''Tremont''. The steamboat was apparently violating traditional ...
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Map Illustrating The Plan Of The Defenses Of The Western And Southwestern Frontier - NARA - 77452208
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as Physical body, objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to Context (language use), context or Scale (map), scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. ...
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