Trade Card No. 24 from the Arbuckle Coffee Company. "One of a series of 50 cards giving a pictorial history of the United States and Territories". This is a unique and wonderfully illustrated card. On the reverse of the card are a few advertising words for Arbuckle Coffee plus a short history on the state of Alabama. Chromolithographie Chromolithography out of a scrapbook, 1892, 0,3 x 0,5 inch/76 x 127 mm. Illustrations are bright and clean.

ALABAMA was made known by Hernando de Soto, the Spanish cavalier who sailed from Cuba, of which he was governor, and landed at Tampa Bay with 620 men, crossed Georgia and entered Alabama in July, 1540. The army visited Coosa, Tallahassee, and other Indian towns, but found no gold, and then marched to Maubila (Mobile), where they were fiercely attacked, and defeated the natives, losing 168 men and slaying 2,500. The first white settlement was made in 1702, and in 1711 the French, under Bienville, built Fort St. Louis de la Mobile on the site of Mobile. In 1813 the Creek War commenced. Generals Jackson and Coffee defeated the Indians several times on the Tallapoosa, and General Claiborne defeated them on the Alabama River. The Indians, commanded by Weatherford, fled in dismay, and in canoes and by swimming many escaped to the opposite shore. Weatherford, finding himself deserted, fled on a powerful horse, hotly pursued, to the verge of a perpendicular bluff, where his steed made a mighty leap, and horse and rider disappeared in the river. They immediately arose and he was borne by the noble animal to the opposite shore and escaped.
In January, 1861, Alabama seceded from the Union. The chief event in the mournful conflict which followed was Farragut's magnificent attack on Mobile, and the occupation of Mobile (in April, 1865,) by General Canby's Union army of 45,000 men. Of late years a great development of mineral wealth has been produced.
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