The Passing of Spain And the Ascendency of America
The Passing of Spain And the Ascendency of America
Crabtree, Jerome Bruce
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The Spaniards were intrenched in three forts and greatly outnumbered their opponents. The first fort was captured by surprise and a panic fell upon the colo- nists. The French lost hardly a man and according to the custom of the times, de Gourgues imitated the per- formance of Melendez. Melendez founded a new settlement the next year and a few others were made but when according to the Treaty ♦ Park man's ** Pioneers of France in the New World." Digitized by VjOOQIC THE ASCENDENCY OF AMERICA. I...47 of Paris, 1763, East Florida passed into the possession of the English, the whole number of inhabitants did not exceed 3,000. During the American Revolution the Spanish gover- nor in New Orleans made an attack upon the English forts in Florida and succeeded in capturing them. By the treaty of 1783 between Great Britain on one side, the allies, France, Spain and the United States, on the other, England restored Florida to Spain, but the boundary was not exactly defined, and a dispute between Spain and the United States at once arose.
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