Tag Archives: Andrew Jackson
MY NEW BOOK UNCOVERS FLORIDA’S FORGOTTEN ROLE IN U.S. FOUNDING ERA FOR AMERICA 250
As the United States gears up to celebrate its 250th anniversary (Semiquincentennial) in 2026, Coral Springs-based historian and author, Kartik Krishnaiyer, is releasing a meticulously researched book that shifts the narrative away from the traditional 13 colonies to reveal Florida’s critical, often-overlooked position during America’s formative years. “The USA at 250: How Florida Became Part […]
Flashback Friday: 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Pensacola
In 1814, Pensacola and Florida was still nominally Spanish territory although the Napoleonic Wars had left much of Spain’s control over its colonial empire in ruins. With the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland at war with the United States, General Andrew Jackson who had just defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of […]
The Florida Squeeze 