In early 1804, Congress passed the Mobile Act which recognized West Florida as being part of the United States.

Grant and President Abraham Lincoln devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions, including attacks against Lee near Richmond, Virginia, and in the Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia, Georgia, and Mobile, Alabama.

Grant and President Abraham Lincoln devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions, including attacks against Lee near Richmond, Virginia, and in the Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia, Georgia, and Mobile, Alabama.

Muscogee warriors fought on behalf of Britain during the Mobile and Pensacola campaigns of 1780 – 81, where Spain re-conquered British West Florida.

Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobile County mainland and was founded in 1786, when French-born Joseph Bouzage ( Bosarge ) was awarded a Spanish land grant on the West Bank of the bayou ( see history below ).

It included Baldwin and Mobile counties in what is now Alabama ; the Mississippi counties of Hancock, Pearl River, Harrison, Stone, Jackson, and George, as well as the southernmost portions of Lamar, Forrest, Perry, and Wayne counties ; and the Louisiana parishes of East Baton Rouge, East and West Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, Tangipahoa, St. Tammany and Washington.

The U. S. annexed the Mobile District of West Florida to the Mississippi Territory in 1812.

In March 1813, Wilkinson led the American force that occupied Mobile in Spanish West Florida.

In 1812, the United States annexed to the Mississippi Territory the Mobile District of West Florida, claiming that it was included in the Louisiana Purchase, although Spain disputed this and maintained its claim over the area.

The road is also mentioned in the 2005 Kanye West songs " Drive Slow " and " Grammy Family ", as well as in his verse in the Boost Mobile promotional single " Whole City Behind Us.

The Southern Crescent inaugurated service in 1970 by combining two trains that had run separately between New York and New Orleans for decades: the Southerner, which ran over the Southern Railway only, between New Orleans and Atlanta via Birmingham ; and the original Crescent, which had previously used Atlanta and West Point Railroad, Western Railway of Alabama and Louisville and Nashville Railroad trackage between New Orleans and Atlanta via Mobile.

* West End, Mobile, Alabama, the westernmost section of the midtown neighborhood in Mobile

Prior to establishing the first permanent buildings there in the very late 1950s, Mobile Allied listening units had driven to various other locales throughout West Berlin hoping to gain the best vantage point for listening to Soviet, East German, and other Warsaw Pact nations military traffic.

Prior to the completion of Interstate 65, motorists traveling from Mobile to Birmingham followed U. S. 43 to Thomasville ; from there, they followed State Route 5 until its junction with U. S. Route 11 near West Blocton.

He appeared in ads for Sean Combs's Sean John clothing company and had an endorsement deal with Boost Mobile, appearing in a commercial alongside Kanye West and Ludacris.

Although the orders given to Flag Officer David G. Farragut when he was assigned to command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron had included instructions to capture Mobile as well as New Orleans, the early diversion of the squadron into the campaign for the lower Mississippi meant that the city and its harbor would not receive full attention until after the fall of Vicksburg in July 1863.

The man in command of the Military Division of West Mississippi, and as such the man whom Farragut would have to work with in planning the attack on Mobile, was Maj. Gen. Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, a career soldier.

* Friend, Jack, West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay.

Reporting for duty with his class in September 1863, Gridley joined the sloop-of-war Oneida with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and distinguished himself with David Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864.

The emblem of the Australian Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, Norforce ( North West Mobile Force ) is the frill-necked lizard.

Thatcher was then appointed to command of the Western Gulf Squadron, immediately commencing operations in co-operation with General Canby, commander of the Army of West Mississippi, in the capture of Mobile, Alabama.

Others include AMPS ( Advanced Mobile Phone System ) used in the North America and Australia, TACS ( Total Access Communications System ) in the United Kingdom, C-450 in West Germany, Portugal and South Africa, Radiocom 2000 in France, and RTMI in Italy.

Its name was altered, to Virgin Mobile Festival, when it returned to Pimlico on August 9 – 10, 2008, with five headliners: The Foo Fighters, Kanye West, Stone Temple Pilots, Jack Johnson, and Nine Inch Nails.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).

West Flemish is spoken by around 1. 05 million people in West Flanders ( in Belgium ), 90, 000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders, and approximately 20, 000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord where it is classified, as a recognized dialect of Dutch, as one of the languages of France.

In 1969 it recommended a system of single-tier unitary authorities for the whole of England, apart from three metropolitan areas of Merseyside, Selnec ( Greater Manchester ) and West Midlands ( Birmingham and the Black Country ), which were to have both a metropolitan council and district councils.

Local government in Canada West operated mainly at the district level until 1849, when a system based on counties was introduced.

Rice's campus is a heavily-wooded tract of land located close to the city of West University Place, in the museum district of Houston.

New York's Radio Row ( 1921 – 1966 ) was a warehouse district on the Lower West Side of Manhattan, New York City.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan also intended to construct his capitol at Agra as an urban center that would rival both Istanbul and Isfahan in all its wealth and cultural lifestyle. He even bestowed the title or surname " Chaudhury " to the family of Dutta Chaudhury, the very ancient Zamindar of Andul, which is situated in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The University Park campus is in the West Adams district of South Los Angeles, southwest of Downtown Los Angeles.

Albion was a district of West Bromwich where some of the players lived or worked, close to what is today Greets Green.

* Madanmohan-jiu Temple built at Samta ( India ), a village in the Howrah district of West Bengal.

) affairs among the individual members, most of whom lived for considerable periods of time in the West Central 1 district of London known as Bloomsbury.

Britain relented insofar as allowing the Cape to incorporate Walvis Bay, which was brought under the magisterial district of Cape Town, but when the Germans finally invaded in the 1880s, South West Africa was predominantly unprotected.

Valentino's funeral Mass in New York was held at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, often called " The Actor's Chapel ", as it is located on West 49th Street in the Broadway theater district, and has a long association with show business figures.

West Timor is a political region that comprises the western half of Timor island with the exception of Oecussi-Ambeno district ( which is politically part of East Timor ) and forms a part of the Indonesian province of Nusa Tenggara Timur, ( NTT or East Nusa Tenggara ).

" Murshidabad silk ", famous from historical times, is mainly produced in Malda and Murshidabad district of West Bengal and woven with hand looms in Birbhum and Murshidabad district.

Federally, Harpers Ferry is part of West Virginia's 2nd congressional district and is represented by Shelley Moore Capito ( R ) in the United States House of Representatives.

To the west, a transition is made across the West London railway line and Earl's Court Road further south into other districts, whilst to the north, the only obvious dividing line is Holland Park Avenue, to the north of which is the similar district of Notting Hill.

* City of Bradford, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire

Category: People from West Oxfordshire ( district )

* Urban district West ( 41 – 44 ): Region Reichenbacher Straße und Freiheitssiedlung ( 41 ), Marienthal East ( 42 ), Marienthal West ( 43 ), Brand ( 44 )