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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 river was the boundary between East Florida and West Florida during the British Florida period (1763–1783) and the second Spanish Florida period (1783–1821). By modern land route it is 198 miles (319 km) from Pensacola and 271 miles (436 km) from St. Augustine .
In 1818, Andrew Jackson led an invasion of Spanish Florida, during the War of 1812 and the Creek War leading to the First Seminole War. [18] The United States acquired Florida from Spain through the Adams–Onís Treaty in 1819 and took possession of the territory in 1821. Now that Florida belonged to the United States, settlers pressured the ...
The Cracker Country museum started in 1978 and the Tampa Museum of Art began in 1979. The Ybor City Museum Society was established in 1982. The Children's Museum started in 1987. Tampa's first history museum were started in 1989. The Florida Aquarium opened in 1995.
In later colonial times the site gained military importance because of its deep harbor and its strategic location near the northern boundary of Spanish Florida. During his invasion of north Florida, 1736–1742, the governor of the British colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, stationed a military guard of Scottish Highlanders on the site and ...
The remains of a 300-year-old British warship found 30 years ago in the waters off Florida have finally been identified as belonging to HMS Tyger by US archaeologists.
The 130-foot HMS Tyger, which had been around since about 1647, patrolled waters off Florida and chased Spanish ships into the Gulf of Mexico during an Anglo-Spanish conflict known as the War of ...
British West Florida was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1763 until 1783, when it was ceded to Spain as part of the Peace of Paris. British West Florida comprised parts of the modern U.S. states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Effective British control ended in 1781 when Spain captured Pensacola.