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Amelia Island,
An island at the mouth of the St. Mary River, near the boundary between Georgia and Florida.
In the summer of 1817 Gregor McGregor, styling himself Brigadier-general of the armies of New Granada and Venezuela, and general-in-chief employed to liberate the provinces of both the Floridas.
commissioned by the sup milar establishment had been set up on Galveston Island, off the coast of Texas, under a leader named Aury.
This establishment was more important than that on Amelia Island, as well on account of numbers as for the greater facilities afforded for smuggling.
It was a second Barataria, and to it some of the old privateers and smugg President sent Captain Henly, in the ship John Adams, with smaller vessels, and a battalion of Charleston artillery under Major Bankhead, to take possession of Amelia Island.
McGregor was then at sea, leaving Aury in command of the island.
He was summoned to evacuate it; and on Dec. 23 the naval and military commanders, with thei
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