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Alabama
Spanish explorers are believed to have
arrived at Mobile Bay in 1519, and the territory was visited
in 1540 by the explorer Hernando de Soto. The first permanent
European settlement in Alabama was founded by the French at
Fort Louis de la Mobile in 1702. The British gained control of
the area in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris, but had to cede
almost all the Alabama region to the U.S. after the American
Revolution. The Confederacy was founded at Montgomery in
February 1861 and, for a time, the city was the Confederate
capital.
Though Alabama entered the Union in
1819as the 22nd State, it wasn't until the state seceded from
the Union in 1861 that Alabamans adopted a flag of their own.
At the Secession Convention of January 11, 1861, distressed
Alabama citizens decided to withdraw from the Union of the
United States. At the same time, they adopted their own flag.
Designed by a group of Montgomery women, the "Secession
Convention Flag" became Alabama's first official flag. Because
Alabama had left the union, the flag was often referred to as
the "Republic of Alabama flag."
Below you are links to informational
sites related to the Alabama Gun laws and regulations. (
Legal lawyer stuff as follows:
Center-fire- Greenfield Industries are not responsible nor
endorses any information found on listed links. blah, blah,
blah. You get the picture. Take everything you read with a
grain of salt.) We have even included some
comical links such as the
Brady Campaign , because everybody enjoys a little
fictional reading from time to time.
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