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In 1721 the King sent three commissioners to Louisiana with full powers to do all that was necessary to protect the colony.
They ordered the raising of troops and obtained 75,000 livres with which to build forts.
They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.
In each of these there was to be a strong military post, and a trading depot to supply the smaller trading houses.
For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.
Mobile was to be the anchor of a chain of posts extending northward to the sources of the Tennessee River.
Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.
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