West Florida

West Florida
Territory of Great Britain (1763–83), Spain (1783–1821). Areas disputed between Spain and United States from 1783–1795 and 1803–1821.
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British West Florida in 1767.
Capital		Pensacola (1763)
Governor
•	1763	George Johnstone
History
•	Treaty of Paris	February 10, 1763
•	Transferred to Spain	1783
•	Treaty of San Lorenzo	1795
•	Treaty of San Ildefonso	1800
•	Republic of West Florida	1810
•	Annexation by U.S.	December 10, 1810 1810–1821

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West Florida (Spanish: Florida Occidental) was a region on the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico, which underwent several boundary and sovereignty changes during its history. The province was established by the British in 1763 out of lands ceded from the Spanish and French. As its name suggests, it was formed out of the Western part of formerly Spanish Florida (East Florida formed the eastern part), along with lands taken from French Louisiana; West Florida's capital was Pensacola. The colony included most of what is now the Florida Panhandle, plus parts of the modern U.S. states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

Great Britain established West and East Florida out of land taken from France and Spain after the French and Indian War. As the newly acquired territory was too large to govern from one administrative center, the British divided it into two new colonies separated by the Apalachicola River. British West Florida's government was based in Pensacola; and the colony included the part of formerly Spanish Florida which lay west of the Apalachicola, plus parts of formerly French Louisiana. It thus comprised all territory between the Mississippi and Apalachicola Rivers, with a northern boundary which shifted several times over the subsequent years.

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