Tag Archives: Pensacola
Throwback Thursday: Queen Anne’s War and the British siege of Pensacola
HISTORICAL NOTE: I REFER TO PRE-1707 ACTIVITIES AS “ENGLISH” AND THOSE FROM 1707 ONWARD AS “BRITISH” DUE TO THE ACTS OF UNION BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH CROWNS THAT WERE ENACTED IN 1707. This week in 1707 the second British siege of Pensacola was lifted. It was culmination of hostilities between the English and the […]
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 […]
Flashback Friday: Siege of Pensacola lifted
We had previously discussed that in 1707 the first English/Creek Indian siege of Pensacola was lifted and the Spanish remained in control of West Florida. This was part of the hostilities associated with Queen Anne’s War. We discussed the siege of St Augustine in April 2013 when the British came dangerously close to taking East Florida. […]
The Florida Squeeze 