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This article text was extracted from Mobile, Alabama due to length. Please expand and reference if you can. Вasil | talk 17:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC) reply

I applaud the work (thanks basil!) and second the call for more references... Mobile has a very rich (and proud) history, and I am sure that with just a little bit of work we could turn this into an A-class article. / Blaxthos 22:16, 5 May 2007 (UTC) reply

The section on the Clotilda and Africatown is inaccurate, among others. I have added invisible notes to explain. We need references for most of the content in this article and some work on a NPOV. Altairisfar 08:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC) reply

Edits

Removed some inaccurate material without sources; added new material with sources; added some relevant photos, removed three that were irrelevant or tangential to the article at hand; included material on segregation and desegregation; added numerous wikilinks. Plan to continue getting article into better shape over the next week. Altairisfar talk 19:10, 5 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Spain

Removed the bit about Mobile being established "with help of the Spanish at Pensacola." Though true to some degree, since the French would have starved without Spanish supplies during the early years, this implies that the Spanish were actively helping the French establish Mobile. Iberville had intended to establish the colony at Pensacola and not at Mobile, as a foothold against the English and the Spanish, but found that the Spanish had arrived and re-established a garrison there a few weeks earlier. Altairisfar talk 16:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC) reply

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Mobilians?

There is a leap between De Soto and the Ibreville/Bienville arrival. I realize historical sources are scarce, but it would help if some knowledgeable folks could fill in some details about the native nations and cultures around Mobile at the time of the French arrival. French chronicles of the time refer to them merely as "Mobiliens". They refer to a chief "Estibamous" who led a nation of 400 "Mobiliens". Are these descended from the 16th C. Mabila? Or related to Alabamas? There seem to be details missing in this article about the nation/language/culture of the "Mobliens" of 1700, or any other native nations in the Mobile region. It would be helpful if someone with sources could fill them in. Walrasiad ( talk) 14:08, 14 June 2020 (UTC) reply