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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. Two decades later, on March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted to the ...
Spanish Florida was established in the 1500s, when Spain laid claim to land explored by several expeditions across the future southeastern United States.The introduction of diseases to the indigenous peoples of Florida caused a steep decline in the original native population over the following century, and most of the remaining Apalachee and Tequesta peoples settled in a series of missions ...
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 ...
American military personnel of the War of 1812 (5 C, 123 P) Pages in category "19th-century American military personnel" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total.
Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County.It was established under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière on 22 June 1564, following King Charles IX's enlisting of Jean Ribault and his Huguenot settlers to stake a claim in French Florida ahead of Spain.
Fort Brooke ca. 1840. Fort Brooke was a historical military post established at the mouth of the Hillsborough River in present-day Tampa, Florida in 1824. Its original purpose was to serve as a check on and trading post for the native Seminoles who had been confined to an interior reservation by the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (1823), and it served as a military headquarters and port during the ...
Osceola (1804 – January 30, 1838, Vsse Yvholv in Creek, also spelled Asi-yahola), named Billy Powell at birth, was an influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida. His mother was Muscogee , and his great-grandfather was a Scotsman, James McQueen .
Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Florida (5 P) Pages in category "People of Florida in the American Civil War" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total.