Fort St. Charles

The executions followed a trade war. Spain's governor Antonio de Ulloa reached New Orleans in March 1766 with about ninety soldiers, and in 1768 he banned trade with France and its colonies, French wine and mostly non-Spanish ship crews. Riots on October 28 led the Superior Council to order him out, and he sailed on November 1. Alejandro O'Reilly arrived in 1769 with some 2,100 soldiers, tried the leaders for treason and had five shot on October 26. His new law code abolished the Superior Council and set up a Cabildo.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Cabildo — 0.5 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.6 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.6 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• Congo Square — 0.6 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.

More markers nearby

• Faubourg Marigny — steps away
• New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade — steps away
• French Market — steps away
• Old Ursuline Convent — steps away