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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.
The Battle of Thomas Creek, also known as the Thomas Creek Massacre, was an ambush of a small detachment of mounted Georgia Militia by a mixed force of British soldiers, Loyalist militia, and British-allied Indians on May 17, 1777 near the mouth of Thomas Creek in northern East Florida.
The siege of Pensacola, fought from March 9 to May 10, 1781, was the culmination of Spain's conquest of West Florida during the Gulf Coast Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. [ 8 ] [ 1 ] The siege was commanded by Bernardo de Gálvez , whose nearly 8,000 troops ultimately overran the British forces in the region.
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 ...
A wrecked seagoing vessel discovered decades ago off the Florida Keys has recently been identified as a British warship that sank in the 18th century. National Park Service archaeologists used new ...
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 British province of East Florida had a royal seal, as did the province of West Florida. [5] The seal for East Florida had on one side a depiction of a fortified town and harbor with the Latin motto Moresque Viris et Moenia Ponet [ 6 ] ("He will establish customs for men, and walls").
A British nuclear missile test launch failed at a test site off the coast of Florida, marking the second time in eight years that the country’s Trident 2 ballistic missiles have malfunctioned ...