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Once an important French fort on the route
to the Mississippi River, Fort St. Joseph (present-day Niles, Michigan)
had fallen into disrepair under the control of the British and was an
easy target for a force of Spaniards who traveled from St. Louis,
Missouri. The Spaniards' one-day occupation of Fort St. Joseph allowed
Niles residents to boast later that theirs was the only Michigan
community over which four flags (French, British, Spanish and American)
had flown.
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