Fort Bute

Fort Bute (1766-1779) - A colonial fort built by the British in 1766 to protect the confluence of Bayou Manchac with the Mississippi. It fell to the Spanish on 7 Sep 1779 in the first Spanish action against the British during the American Revolutionary War. (Later history of the fort?) Current Status Unknown Location: Bayou Manchac, Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Maps & Images Lat: 30.32361 Long: -91.13694 Multi Maps from ACME Maps from Bing Maps from Google Elevation: .....' Sources: Roberts, Robert B., Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States, Macmillan, New York, 1988, 10th printing, ISBN 0-02-926880-X, page 332-333. Links: North American Forts - Fort Bute [1] (Tennessee Historical Magazine, Vol. V, No. 1, p128 including Thayer's note and further links) Wikipedia Visited: No