New Marseille was a city on the west coast of Atlantis, founded by French settlers. New Marseille was taken, along with the rest of French Atlantis, by the British after the war in the 1760s.
In 1776, during the Atlantean War of Independence, New Marseille was occupied by a British army led by Lord Charles Cornwallis for a period, before being recaptured by the Army of the Atlantean Assembly under Victor Radcliff. The British had ringed the city with well-sited fortifications and works. They evacuated the city by ships only when news of France's entry into the war reached them, in order to engage the French on the east coast.
Following the Treaty of Croydon, New Marseille became the capital of the State of New Marseille within the United States of Atlantis.
In 1843, John Audubon and Edward Harris had to stop in New Marseille to undergo customs inspection, even though they were destined for Avalon, a procedure that irritated both. Audubon became even more irate when he had to pay duty on the raw spirits he had in his luggage, which he intended to use to preserve specimens.[1]
Audubon and Harris also observed that due to the effects of the Bay Stream, New Marseille basked in an almost unending May, while Avalon, further north, lived in a perpetual April.[2]
In 1852, New Marseille was the epicenter of the Atlantean Servile Insurrection.
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- ↑ See e.g.: Atlantis and Other Places, pg. 17-18, HC.
- ↑ Ibid.
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