St. Louis

St. Louis is the largest metropolis in the state of Missouri.

St. Louis in Atlantis
St. Louis was John James Audubon's starting point for his excursion to Atlantis. He and Edward Harris sailed down the Big Muddy River to New Orleans, and then out into the Bay of Mexico, across the Hesperian Gulf, and on to Atlantis.

St. Louis in "Batboy"
St. Louis was the home of the St. Louis Browns.

St. Louis in In the Presence of Mine Enemies
St. Louis was one of several cities in the United States where the Wehrmacht of the Greater German Reich maintained a base.

St. Louis in Southern Victory
Abraham and Mary Lincoln were visiting St. Louis in the late 1870s when they both developed typhoid. Abrahma Lincoln survived. Mary Lincoln did not.

In 1876, the Democrats held their national convention in St. Louis. They nominated Samuel J. Tilden for the presidency. He went on to win.

On the eve of the Second Mexican War, Frederick Douglass made a speech in St. Louis.

During the Second Great War, St. Louis was a target of Confederate bombing raids. When General Abner Dowling passed through the town, it was still under tight blackout restrictions. It was one of the cities Confederate President Jake Featherston idly threatened to destroy with a superbomb in 1944.

St. Louis in Worldwar
St. Louis was occupied by the Race along with most of the Mississippi during their invasion and seen as a crucial objective in regaining control of the river. Battles to achieve that goal pitted American General Dwight Eisenhower based in southern Missouri and Arkansas against Shiplord Horrep. The Peace of Cairo returned St. Louis to the United States.