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Green Cross of Florida flag, also used as flag of Poyais.. The Republic of the Floridas, also called Republic of Floridas, was a short-lived attempt, from June to December 1817, to establish an independent Florida (the plural "Floridas" refers to the separate provinces of East Florida and West Florida, then Spanish territory).
MacGregor raised a flag showing a green cross on a white field—the "Green Cross of Florida"—and issued a proclamation on 30 June urging the island's inhabitants to return and support him. This was largely ignored, as was a second proclamation in which MacGregor congratulated his men on their victory and exhorted them to "free the whole of ...
Today the Plaza San Carlos is maintained by the State of Florida as part of the State Park System. The plaza offers a space for nature study and picnicking. David Levy Yulee, one of the first United States senators from Florida, established the first cross-state railroad running from Fernandina Beach to Cedar Key, which opened on March 1, 1861 ...
English: Digital rendition of the Green Cross flag raised by Gregor MacGregor on Amelia Island, Florida in 1817, and later used as the supposed flag of Poyais in the 1820s. Date 1 June 2007 (original upload date)
July 21: Escambia County and St. John's County, Florida's first two counties are established. December 31: Andrew Jackson leaves office as the governor of Florida. 1822 March 30: Florida Territory is organized combining East Florida and West Florida. April 17: Florida's first civilian governor, William Pope Duval takes office.
November 20 – The first Seminole War begins in Florida. December 10 – Mississippi is admitted as the 20th U.S. state, formerly the Mississippi Territory. [1] (see History of Mississippi). Then Alabama Territory is effective. December 30 – Hawaii plants coffee for the first time.
The Seminoles of Florida. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1196-5. Florida Board of State Institutions. (1903) Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish–American Wars. at Internet Archive – Ebooks and Texts Archive – URL retrieved November 22, 2010. Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. (1930) Edited by ...
White American settlers were in constant conflict with Native American people collectively known as the Seminoles, who straddled the border between the U.S. and Florida. [139] In December 1817, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun initiated the First Seminole War by ordering Jackson to lead a campaign "with full power to conduct the war as he may ...