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==Events==
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*[[1704]] – [[Andrés de Arriola]] arrives in [[Pensacola Bay]] with food supplies to reinforce the [[Presidio Santa María de Galve]], which had previously borrowed provisions from French [[Mobile]].
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*[[1719]] – The French fleet, under [[Jean Baptiste Le Moyne]] and his brother [[Sieur de Bienville]], enters [[Pensacola Bay]], fires on [[Fort San Carlos]], and [[Battle of Pensacola (1719)|captures Pensacola]].
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*[[1856]] – Construction begins on the [[Alabama & Florida Railroad]].
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*[[2006]] – [[Escambia County Commissioner]]s request validation of funds for the [[Southwest Escambia Improvement District]], which was approved but later halted by a complaint by Dr. [[Greg Strand]].
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==Births==
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*[[1824]] – [[Edmund Kirby Smith]]
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*[[1875]] – [[John Hunter Workman]]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 15:24, 12 June 2009

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