First Capital of Colonial French Louisiana “On January 20, 1702, French colonists, led by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, establish Fort Louis de la Mobile on a bluff twenty-seven miles up the Mobile River from Mobile Bay. The settlement, soon known simply as “Mobile,” moved to its permanent site at the mouth of the Mobile River in 1711. It served … Continue reading Mobile, Alabama, a colony of France, Britain and Spain – this {film and old photographs} reveals its mixed heritage