Six Mile Cypress Slough is in Lee County

In April 1777, East Florida Governor Patrick Tonyn was made aware that American rebels/patriots governing Georgia planned to invade Florida from the north. The Americans has attempted to invade the previous year but had been rebuffed. On May 10, American forces crossed the St Mary’s River and entered East Florida. Unlike in 1776, British forces were […]

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From CBS This Morning

Robert Buccellato discusses two of his recent books published through TFS.

This is an excerpt from my book, Florida and the British, before the American Revolution which has just been re-released with an updated and better formatted second edition. King Charles II of Spain in 1693 issued a proclamation “giving liberty to all” runaway slaves provided they converted to Catholicism. It was effectively the response from Spain […]

Disclosure: This book is published by TFS’ publishing arm. In Robert Buccallato’s other works about the state we’ve seen the evolution of Florida from small town oriented and reactionary to urban megastate. In Finding Dan McCarty, Buccallato brilliantly articulates an era of Florida politics and growth where the counties of South Florida who were driving the state’s […]

Two new books from A Florida Squeeze Publication.

The updated, revised and better organized second edition is now available! Just in time for the holidays! Frankly the first edition was put together hastily and looked more like a long dissertation with binding than a proper book with chapters and pictures but this version fixes that in addition to adding more content. https://amzn.to/3VEF3NG