West Florida Controversy

West Florida Controversy refers to the dispute over the possession of West Florida. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ceded Florida and portions of Louisiana to Britain from Spain and France (called in whole East Florida and West Florida). After the American Revolution, however control was ceded to Spain again, and the controversy over exactly what Spain held and exactly what America held began.

The controversy was ended by Pinckney's Treaty in 1795, but re-emerged later in conjunction with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In 1810, a revolt against Spanish rule and subsequent occupation by American forces ended the controversy for good.

External links

“Not Merely Perfidious but Ungrateful”: The U.S. Takeover of West Florida

References

Isaac Joslin Cox, West Florida Controversy, 1798-1813; A Study In American Diplomacy, ISBN 0-7812-6301-8
Stanley Clisby Arthur, The Story of the West Florida Rebellion. St. Francisville, La.: St. Francisville Democrat.

West Florida was a region on the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico, which underwent several boundary and sovereignty changes during its history. Parts of the territory were held at various times by France, Spain, Britain, and the United States (as well as the short-lived
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The Treaty of Paris, often called the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of 1763, was signed on February 10, 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement.
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Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a state in Western Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1800. It was created by the merger of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, under the Acts of Union 1707, to create a single
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
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East Florida was originally a part of Spanish Florida. Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War, Spain ceded all of its territory east and southeast of the Mississippi River to the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.
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Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of approximately 530 million acres (800,000 sq mi or 2,100,000 km²) of French territory in 1803, at the cost of about 4¢ per acre (7¢ per ha); totaling $15 million or 80 million French francs.
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Isaac Joslin Cox, Ph. D. (1873–1956) was an American professor of history, born at West Creek, Ocean Co., N. J., and educated at Dartmouth College and at the universities of Texas, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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