Florida (Short-lived US)

Florida is the name of a region of, to the south of the. It was originally a colony, but then was given to  by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The British divided the colony to East and West Florida. The British only kept the colony for twenty years though, as the Spanish regained it through the Treaty of Versailles in 1783, ending the. The Spanish encouraged settlement in Florida, leading many Americans to emigrate from the. Americans continued to move to Florida after the.

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After settler attacks on Indian towns, Indians based in East Florida began aiding the new, purportedly at the behest of the Spanish. The British Army led increasingly frequent incursions into Spanish territory, including the 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminole Indians by that became known as the. Following the war, the effectively controlled East Florida. In 1819, by terms of the Wellesley-Onís Treaty, Spain ceded Florida to the British Empire and the continental border was finalised. Britain also gave the promise to help Spain in the ongoing wars of independance in Latin America.