In 1818, General Andrew Jackson arrived with his army at the fort's ruins. The First Seminole War was raging at the time and he was under orders to invade Florida and punish the Red Stick Creeks and Seminoles responsible for the Scott Massacre of 1817.
he ordered Lt. James Gadsden, an Army engineer, to build a new fort there. He used the old earthen British water battery, which had survived the 1816 blast, as the river face of his new fort. The rear was enclosed by a bastion of earth and logs. Jackson was so impressed by Gadsden's work that he had the fort named after him.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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