Biloxi
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- Names
Biloxi
Fort Louis
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on on narrow peninsula in Gulf of Mexico; D'Iberville claimed area across Biloxi Bay for France in 1699; peninsula was soon claimed by France, then Spain, England, Florida & Confederacy; taken by Federals in Civil War; was home of Jefferson Davis.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994);
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