For the modern micronation, see Dominion of British West Florida.
Colony of West Florida
Colony of Great Britain
1763–1783
Flag of Great Britain
British West Florida in 1767
Capital
Pensacola
Government
Governor
• 1763
Augustine Prévost
• 1770–1783
Peter Chester
History
• Treaty of Paris (1763)
10 February 1763
• Peace of Paris (1783)
1783
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Louisiana (New France)
Spanish Florida
Spanish West Florida
British West Florida was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1763 until 1783, when it was ceded to Spain as part of the Peace of Paris.
British West Florida comprised parts of the modern U.S. states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Effective British control ended in 1781 when Spain captured Pensacola. The territory subsequently became a colony of Spain, parts of which were gradually annexed piecemeal by the United States beginning in 1810.
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the British divided it into two new colonies separated by the Apalachicola River. BritishWestFlorida included the part of formerly Spanish Florida, which...
ceded to the United States. The region of WestFlorida initially had the same borders as the erstwhile British colony. Much of its territory was gradually...
in East Florida was lower than in BritishWestFlorida but higher than in the other southern British colonies. Those who were white in Florida generally...
Republic of WestFlorida (Spanish: República de Florida Occidental, French: République de Floride occidentale), officially the State of Florida, was a short-lived...
operations against the British in the region during the war. Spain occupied or built several forts north of the old BritishWestFlorida border, including...
Key West (Spanish: Cayo Hueso) is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida. Together with all or parts of the separate islands...
acquired WestFlorida and re-acquired East Florida from Great Britain through the Peace of Paris (1783), the eastern British boundary of WestFlorida was the...
indigenous population to Cuba. The British divided the territory into East Florida and WestFlorida. The British soon constructed the King's Road connecting...
provinces (Las Floridas) into East Florida and WestFlorida, a division the Spanish government kept after the brief British period. The British government...
against the British province of WestFlorida. Begun with operations against British positions on the Mississippi River shortly after Britain and Spain went...
immediately after Spain received the colonies of West and East Florida from the Kingdom of Great Britain following the American Revolutionary War. Initial...
from 1607 to 1783. These colonies were formally known as British America and the BritishWest Indies immediately prior to thirteen of the colonies seceding...
government, American and British settlers in the part of WestFloridawest of the Pearl River declared an independent Republic of WestFlorida in 1810 and elected...
The Florida panhandle (also known as WestFlorida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida. It is a salient roughly...
Spanish WestFlorida. The Creek refugees joined the Seminole of Florida. In 1814, Britain was still at war with the United States, and many British commanders...
Republic of WestFlorida was a short-lived nation that broke away from the territory of Spanish WestFlorida in 1810. It comprised the Florida Parishes of...
the British sloop-of-war HMS WestFlorida and the Continental Navy schooner USS Morris in the waters of Lake Pontchartrain, then in the British province...
(anachronistically, since a different version of the British flag would have been flown in BritishWestFlorida and the Province of Georgia long before the Alabama...
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