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William Augustus Bowles (c. 1763 – c. 1805) was an American-born military officer and adventurer. Born in Frederick County, Maryland , Bowles was commissioned into the Maryland Loyalists Battalion at the rank of ensign , seeing action during the American Revolutionary War , including the 1781 siege of Pensacola .
William Augustus Bowles (1763-1805) was also known as Estajoca, his Muscogee name. The State of Muskogee was a proclaimed sovereign nation located in Florida, founded in 1799 and led by William Augustus Bowles, a Loyalist veteran of the American Revolutionary War who lived among the Muscogee, and envisioned uniting the Native Americans of the Southeast into a single nation that could resist ...
William Augustus Bowles (1799 – March 28, 1873) was a physician, landowner, and politician from French Lick, Orange County, Indiana. He is best remembered for establishing the first French Lick Springs Hotel , a mineral springs resort hotel in the 1840s, and platting the town of French Lick, Indiana , in 1857.
William Augustus Bowles was an ensign in the Maryland Loyalists Battalion. In the 1790s, he became a leader of the Creek Indians. Philip Barton Key was a captain in the Maryland Loyalists Battalion. After the war, Key studied law in England and returned to Maryland in 1785.
William Augustus Bowles (1763–1805), also known as Estajoca, served with the Maryland Loyalist Battalion and was a Maryland-born English adventurer and organizer of Native American attempts to create their own state outside of Euro-American control. [7] [8] [9] Joseph Brant Thayendenegea (1743–1807), Mohawk war leader
William Augustus Bowles, Director General (1799–1803) Republic of the Rio Grande – Jesús de Cárdenas, President (1840) Republic of Texas (complete list) – David G. Burnet, interim President (1836) Sam Houston, President (1836−1838, 1841−1844) Mirabeau B. Lamar, President (1838–1841) Anson Jones, President (1844−1846)
In 1800, a former British officer named William Augustus Bowles attempted to unify and lead 400 Creek Indians against the Spanish, eventually capturing San Marcos. A Spanish flotilla arrived some five weeks later and re-assumed control of the fort.
About the time of the American revolutionary war, the bends and meanderings of the river at Estiffanulga gave shelter to pirate William Augustus Bowles, who sailed to and from Havana, Cuba and Nassau, Bahamas as well as Pensacola, Florida with commerce and bounty.