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In 1806 United States and Spain agreed on a neutral strip on the Louisiana-Texas line. After the Adam-Onis Treaty in 1819, the strip fell to the United States. The strip was a haunt of outlaws and robbers and the United States government moved to pacify it. Since the treaty was not ratified until 1821, a military post was to be established just outside the eastern edge of the strip.[3]
On November 19, 1820, Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Taylor and four companies of 7th U.S. Infantry arrived to Natchitoches, Louisiana. Taylor chose a point on the Bayou Pierre about 12 miles from Natchitoches as site for a temporary post called Fort Selden. Taylor subsequently received order to scout out the site of a permanent post.[4] In March 1821, Major General Edmund P. Gaines inspected Fort Selden and gave a highly positive report on Taylor's command.[5] He also agreed on the place of a new post, the later Fort Jesup.[6] Gaines subsequently ordered Taylor and his command to abandon Fort Selden and move to the site of the new post.[7]