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6 days ago · Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba, the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas.
6 days ago · Florida was under colonial rule by Spain from the 16th century to the 19th century, and briefly by Great Britain during the 18th century (1763–1783). Neither Spain nor Britain maintained a large military or civilian population. It became a territory of the United States in 1821.
1 day ago · Spanish explorers claimed land for the crown in the modern-day states of Alabama, Arizona, the Carolinas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, and California. Puerto Rico was also colonized by the Spanish during this era, occasioning the earliest contact between Africans and what would become the United States (via the ...
May 10, 2024 · Spain contended that West Florida was Spanish territory and therefore it could not be sold to the United States. From 1803 to 1810, the Spanish held onto tenuous control of this territory....
May 3, 2024 · Spanish Florida (Kids or Adults) A brief overview of the Spanish in Florida, including the Spanish Missions, focusing on Mission San Luis and the Apalachee. The presentation ends with a discussion on how the Spanish have had a lasting influence on Florida’s heritage.
May 9, 2024 · Forces under Gen. Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish Florida, attacked several key locations, and pushed the Seminoles farther south into Florida. St. Marks, Fla., April 1818 -- Two Seminole chiefs, or micos are captured by Jackson's forces who used the ruse of flying the British flag to lure the Indians to them.
5 days ago · Florida's Colonial Period ; Sources for the Spanish Colonial Period ; British Colonial Period: Introduction ; The Archive of the Condes of Revillagigedo on the New World ; Further Reading ; Spanish Colonial St. Augustine - Teacher Resources ; AMH 3421 Sources for Undergraduate Research; AMH 3423 Florida History (Noll) AMH 4930 Civil War in ...
