In the late 17th century the Spanish returned to the area to found the modern Pensacola as an outpost from which to defend their claims to Spanish Florida.
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The Spanish recaptured Pensacola in 1781 and retained control (excepting three short-lived invasions by American General Andrew Jackson in 1813, 1814, and 1818) until 1821, when the Adams-Onís Treaty ceded all of Spanish Florida to the United States.
He claimed the 'island' for Spain and named it La Florida, because it was the season of Pascua Florida ("Flowery Easter") and because much of the vegetation was in bloom.
Originally known as San Marcos de Apalache, this town was founded by the Spanish in the 17th century in what was then Spanish Florida.
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In the best-known incident, Andrew Jackson, in his cavalier incursion into Spanish Florida in 1818, executed British nationals Robert Christie Ambrister and Alexander Arbuthnot at the old fort.
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In August 1814, a force of over 100 officers and men led by a lieutenant colonel of Royal Marines, Edward Nicolls, was sent into the Apalachicola River region in Spanish Florida, where they began to aid and train local Indians.
Francisco Menéndez Márquez (d. 1649), royal treasurer and interim governor of Spanish Florida
Juan Menéndez Márquez (d. 1627), royal treasurer and interim governor of Spanish Florida
In May 1683, de Grammont, van Hoorn and de Graaf sacked Vera Cruz in Mexico, taking 4,000 prisoners for ransom.Later Grammont raided Spanish Florida settlements, including St.Augustine and the Mocama mission province, forcing further southward migrations.
In 1683 the French pirate Michel de Grammont raided Spanish Florida settlements, including St. Augustine and the Mocama mission province, forcing further southward migrations.
The British tradition began later (some time close to, but earlier than, 1700, upon introduction of the techniques from Spanish Florida) than the Spanish (1580), and spread far more widely as a building material, reaching at least as far north as Staten Island, New York, where it can be found in the still-standing Abraham Manee House, erected around 1670.