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The Patriot War was an attempt in 1812 to foment a rebellion in Spanish East Florida with the intent of annexing the province to the United States. The invasion and the occupation of parts of East Florida had elements of filibustering but was also supported by units of the United States Army, Navy, and Marines and by militia from Georgia and Tennessee.
The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State Press, 1958. ISBN 0-87013-676-3; Guernsey, Rocellus S. New York City and Vicinity During the War of 1812. New York, NY: Charles L. Woodward, 1889. Mahon, John K. The War of 1812. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1972. ISBN 0-306-80429-8. Mahon, John K. and ...
The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, Vol. 4. Washington: Naval Historical Center . ISBN 978-1-943604-36-4. Jones, K Randell (2006) In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair. ISBN 0895873249; Walter Lowrie & Walter S Franklin. American State Papers: Foreign Relations: Volume 4. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1834
"Film reel 15, War Office Records, War Department In-Letters and Papers, 1814–1815", Two volumes, Expedition to the Southern coasts of the United States; dispatches, 1814 July - 1815 Mar; papers, 1814, War of 1812 Documents from the British National Archives microfilm, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2006, WO 1/141 WO 1/142
The War Of 1812. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306804298. Marshall, John (1829). "Percy, William Henry" . Royal Naval Biography. Vol. sup, part 3. London: Longman and company. pp. 64– 70. Millett, Nathaniel (2005). "Britain's 1814 Occupation of Pensacola and America's Response: An Episode of the War of 1812 in the Southeastern Borderlands".
In 1812, General George Mathews and Colonel John McKee were commissioned by President James Madison as agents "with secret instructions 'to repair to that quarter with all possible expedition', for the purpose of carrying out the intentions of the act" (i.e., a secret Act of Congress on January 15, 1811) and to approach the Spanish governor in an attempt to acquire East Florida.
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 ...
During the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom, the fort was the scene of the American victory at the Battle of Pensacola (1814).This was fought between American forces commanded by General Andrew Jackson as well as some Native American allies, and the allied forces of Great Britain, Spanish Florida, and the Creek nation.