President Andrew Jackson saw this escaped slave colony as a threat, leading him to strike in what battle?

Some 800 escaped slaves and black freemen, women, and children took refuge in a British fort in northern Florida that became known as "Negro Fort". Feeling threatened by this colony after an incident where an American gunboat was ambushed, President Andrew Jackson ordered an attack. When a Navy gunboat struck the fort's powder storage, an enormous explosion put a quick end to the battle, with Col. Clinch describing it as a "scene horrible beyond description".

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