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  2. Republic of the Floridas - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Gregor MacGregor - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. File:Green Cross flag of Florida.svg - Wikipedia

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    "MacGregor's flag, a green St. George's Cross on a white background called the Green Cross of Florida, was raised over Fernandina on 28 June 1817." Author Zscout370 at English Wikipedia

  5. Florida History: The swashbuckling era of Amelia Island

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  6. Original Town of Fernandina Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    David Levy Yulee, one of the first United States senators from Florida, established the first cross-state railroad running from Fernandina Beach to Cedar Key, which opened on March 1, 1861. When Yulee established the railroad, he platted "new" Fernandina, shifting the town of Fernandina from Old Town to the present location along Centre Street.

  7. Fernandina Beach, Florida - Wikipedia

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    However, A Scottish soldier and adventurer named Gregor MacGregor with 55 musketeers seized Fort San Carlos in 1817, claiming the island on behalf of "the brethren of Mexico, Buenos Ayres, New Grenada and Venezuela", [11] and raised the Green Cross of Florida flag over the Spanish Fort San Carlos. [12]

  8. Amelia Island - Wikipedia

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    The Green Cross flag. Insurgencies and filibuster efforts continued. Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish-born soldier of fortune, led an army of 150 men, including recruits from Charleston and Savannah, some War of 1812 veterans, and 55 musketeers, in an assault of Fort San Carlos on June 29, 1817. The commander, Francisco Morales, struck the Spanish ...

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