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The Frontier War for American Independence. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-0077-1. OCLC 260092836. Pennington, Edward (July 1930). "East Florida in the American Revolution, 1775–1778". The Florida Historical Society Quarterly. 9 (1). Florida Historical Society: 24– 46. JSTOR 30149717. Piecuch, Jim (2008). Three Peoples ...
The French and Indian War, part of the wider global conflict known as the Seven Years' War, ended with the 1763 Peace of Paris, which expelled France from their possessions in New France. [45] The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was designed to refocus colonial expansion north into Nova Scotia and south into Florida , with the Mississippi River as ...
The Battle of Alligator Bridge took place on June 30, 1778, and was the only major engagement in an unsuccessful campaign to conquer British East Florida during the American Revolutionary War. A detachment of Georgia militiamen under the command of General James Screven chased Thomas Brown 's Loyalist company into a large position of British ...
(1765–1775) United Colonies (1775–1781) United States (1781–1783) Outcome: Independence of the United States of America from Great Britain; Dissolution of British America, formation of British North America and Spanish Florida; End of the First British Empire; Began the Age of Revolution; World's first federal republic founded on the ...
Florida had the only recorded lynching in 1945, in October after the war's end, when a black man was killed after being falsely accused of assaulting a white girl. [ 71 ] In the 1920s, many developers invested in land in the southern part of the State in areas such as Miami, and Palm Beach attracting more people in the Southern States.
The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted from 1775 to 1783.
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The Loyalists in Florida had hardly settled to their new life when they learned that the peace treaty of 1783 returned Florida to Spain. There occurred another mass migration to the Bahamas, Jamaica, and the other islands of the West Indies, as well as to Great Britain. [1] On January 7, 1783, the Georgia General Assembly elected Lyman Hall ...