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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alabama (search)
All the territory now Alabama north of 31° and west to the Mississippi ceded to England by France......1763 [West Florida from 1764 to 1781 included much of the present territory of Alabama and Mississippi. The British province of west Florida was bounded by 32° 28′ N., while all Alabama north of 32° 28′ was in the British province of Illinois.] Spain declares war against Great Britain......May 8, 1779 Don Bernardo de Galvez, Spanish governor of Louisiana, captures Mobile......March 14, 1780 Great Britain cedes to the United States all territory east of the Mississippi except Florida, the boundary of west Florida being again fixed at 31° N.; and cedes Florida back to Spain by treaties of......1783 A treaty between the federal government and the Chocktaw Indians confirming the cession of the territory obtained by the British from that tribe......Jan. 3, 1786 Georgia claims to include by royal charter what is now Alabama and Mississippi, and creates Houstoun county o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
29, 1770 Unzaga appointed captain-general of Caracas, Don Bernardo de Galvez assumes the government......Feb. 1, 1777 Galvez by proclamation grants privilege of trading with any part of the United States......April 20, 1778 Settlement called New Iberia on the Bayou Teche by about 500 immigrants from Canary Islands......January, 1779 Galvez captures Baton Rouge from the British......Sept. 21, 1779 Galvez moves against Fort Charlotte on the Mobile River and captures it......March 14, 1780 John James Audubon born at New Orleans......May 4, 1780 Galvez invests Pensacola, which capitulates......May 9, 1781 Treaty of peace at Paris between Great Britain, Spain, and the United States......Sept. 3, 1783 Galvez succeeds his father in the viceroyalty of Mexico in 1785; Don Estevan Miro acts in his place and receives his commission as governor......June 2, 1786 Gen. James Wilkinson reaches New Orleans in June with a small cargo of tobacco and other goods. Perhaps
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 12: (search)
on everything depends on procuring for Russia without the least loss of time the satisfaction she exacts, and which Spain can the less refuse, because it has plainly acted with too much precipitation. Make the ministry feel all the importance of this warning, and the absolute necessity of satisfying Russia without the slightest delay on an article where the honor of her flag is so greatly interested. In truth, it is necessary not to palter in a moment so pressing. Frederic to Goltz, 14 March, 1780. Vergennes read the letter of Frederic, and by a courier despatched a copy of it to the French ambassador at Madrid, with the instruction: I should Chap. XII.} 1780. March. wrong your penetration and the sagacity of the cabinet of Madrid, if I were to take pains to demonstrate the importance for the two crowns to spare nothing in order that the empress of Russia may not depart from the system of neutrality which she has embraced. Vergennes to Montmorin, 27 March, 1780. The lett