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re: Explain the Republic of West Florida tale to me
Posted on 12/3/24 at 2:12 pm to notiger1997
Posted on 12/3/24 at 2:12 pm to notiger1997
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West Florida Republic was a no man's land full of ex-convicts, inbreeders, and child molesters. Many of the descendants of those original settlers still remain today.
I’ve always heard this.
Yeah, in Bogalusa
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Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:37 pm to SantaFe
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Casa Calvo
His claim to fame was having a Mexican Restaurant in Houma named after him - La Casa Del Sol!
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:47 pm to Rambler
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short-lived republic in the western region of Spanish West Florida
West Florida and Republic of West Florida are two different things.
West Florida extended north to Vicksburg area and East to the Chattahoochee River.
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:47 pm to UFFan
Fun facts about West Florida before the Republic:
France needed a settlement to control trade along Mississippi River. The closest established settlements were Mobile and Biloxi. There was a navigable route from Biloxi, through Rigolets, Lake Ponchatrain, Lake Maurepas, Amite River, Bayou Manchac, to Mississippi River just south of Baton Rouge. This area was originally the proposed location of New Orleans because of the more direct path between upper Mississippi River and Mobile. This location could have also made mulitple routes possible, east into Bayou Manchac, south down main Mississippi River, and west into Bayou Plaquemine/Little Tensas/Atchafalaya.
The south boundary of Republic of West Florida was Bayou Manchac with its intersection of Mississippi River being the south west corner of the Republic. They could have still opened up a large port city there.
The area of UCLUB could have been ground zero for one of the largest port cities in the world.
Also, right up until the Revolutionary War, British West Florida was a British colony. It was populated by British traders who didnt want to join the American Revolution. West Floridians remained loyal to the crown.
France needed a settlement to control trade along Mississippi River. The closest established settlements were Mobile and Biloxi. There was a navigable route from Biloxi, through Rigolets, Lake Ponchatrain, Lake Maurepas, Amite River, Bayou Manchac, to Mississippi River just south of Baton Rouge. This area was originally the proposed location of New Orleans because of the more direct path between upper Mississippi River and Mobile. This location could have also made mulitple routes possible, east into Bayou Manchac, south down main Mississippi River, and west into Bayou Plaquemine/Little Tensas/Atchafalaya.
The south boundary of Republic of West Florida was Bayou Manchac with its intersection of Mississippi River being the south west corner of the Republic. They could have still opened up a large port city there.
The area of UCLUB could have been ground zero for one of the largest port cities in the world.
Also, right up until the Revolutionary War, British West Florida was a British colony. It was populated by British traders who didnt want to join the American Revolution. West Floridians remained loyal to the crown.
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:54 pm to Shexter
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West Florida Republic was a no man's land full of ex-convicts, inbreeders, and child molesters.
Many of the descendants of those original settlers still remain today.
We wuz Kangs!
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:55 pm to Sam Quint
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it's funny how almost every state has some horseshite tale of woe that they run around telling about how their state is actually better than Texas
Like how Jim Bowie wound up at the alamo?
Posted on 12/3/24 at 4:35 pm to AutoYes_Clown
Also, right up until the Revolutionary War, British West Florida was a British colony. It was populated by British traders who didnt want to join the American Revolution. West Floridians remained loyal to the crown.
Actually, during the Revolutionary War, Florida was "the 14th colony" ( in truth, the 14th and 15th-- East and West Florida) that didn't join the revolution.
Read a good book about it summer of 2023 when I was at the beach... in Florida:
Actually, during the Revolutionary War, Florida was "the 14th colony" ( in truth, the 14th and 15th-- East and West Florida) that didn't join the revolution.
Read a good book about it summer of 2023 when I was at the beach... in Florida:
Posted on 12/3/24 at 5:02 pm to BRich
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Actually, during the Revolutionary War, Florida was "the 14th colony" ( in truth, the 14th and 15th-- East and West Florida) that didn't join the revoluti
I don’t think there were many Englishmen in Florida at this time anyway. Spain had ceded it to Great Britain only 20 years before per terms of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years War. Britain was then forced to give it back to Spain at the end of the American Revolution. The US then bought it from Spain in 1821.
Posted on 12/3/24 at 5:06 pm to UFFan
I proudly live in said republic 
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