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Green Cross of Florida flag, also used as flag of Poyais.. The Republic of the Floridas, also called Republic of Floridas, was a short-lived attempt, from June to December 1817, to establish an independent Florida (the plural "Floridas" refers to the separate provinces of East Florida and West Florida, then Spanish territory).
English: Digital rendition of the Green Cross flag raised by Gregor MacGregor on Amelia Island, Florida in 1817, and later used as the supposed flag of Poyais in the 1820s. Date 1 June 2007 (original upload date)
July 21: Escambia County and St. John's County, Florida's first two counties are established. December 31: Andrew Jackson leaves office as the governor of Florida. 1822 March 30: Florida Territory is organized combining East Florida and West Florida. April 17: Florida's first civilian governor, William Pope Duval takes office.
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MacGregor raised a flag showing a green cross on a white field—the "Green Cross of Florida"—and issued a proclamation on 30 June urging the island's inhabitants to return and support him. This was largely ignored, as was a second proclamation in which MacGregor congratulated his men on their victory and exhorted them to "free the whole of ...
A shell midden at Enterprise, Florida in 1875.. The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of Gondwana at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of Laurentia 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator.
Green Cross Code, a traffic safety education program in the United Kingdom; Green Cross Corps, an alternative name for the British Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps; Green Cross flags, the industrial safety/health flags in Japan; Green Cross for Safety Award from the National Safety Council
Watt Stewart. The South American Commission, 1817–1818. The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (February, 1929), pp. 31–59; John Perry Pritchett. Selkirk's Return from Assiniboia Via The United States to the Canadas, 1817–1818. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (December, 1945), pp. 399–418