West Florida

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British colonial province former colony

West Florida was a short-lived British colonial province along the Gulf Coast, carved from former Spanish territory after the Seven Years’ War and later divided between the United States and Spain.

Aliases (5)

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British colonial province → former colony →
borderedBy	East Florida → Gulf of Mexico → Mississippi River → Province of Georgia →
capital	Pensacola →
capturedBy	Spain during the American Revolutionary War →
cededByTreaty	Treaty of Paris (1783) →
cededTo	Spain →
conflict	American Revolutionary War →
continent	North America →
country	Kingdom of Great Britain →
dividedBetween	Spain → United States →
economyBasedOn	cattle ranching → plantation agriculture → timber trade →
endTime	1783 →
establishedAfter	Seven Years' War →
establishedBy	Treaty of Paris (1763) →
firstGovernor	George Johnstone →
follows	Spanish Florida →
governingBody	Governor and Council of West Florida →
historyPeriod	18th century →
locatedInPresentDay	Alabama → Florida → Louisiana → Mississippi →
locatedOn	Gulf Coast of the United States →
majorBattle	Siege of Pensacola (1781) →
namedAfter	Florida →
northernBoundaryExtendedTo	32°28′ north latitude →
originalNorthernBoundary	31st parallel north →
partOf	British America → Spanish Empire →
predecessor	Spanish Florida →
religionOfficial	Protestantism →
relinquishedBy	Kingdom of Great Britain →
significantPort	Mobile → Pensacola →
startTime	1763 →
subsequentEntity	Spanish West Florida →
successor	Mississippi Territory → Spanish West Florida → State of Alabama → State of Florida → State of Louisiana → State of Mississippi → Territory of Orleans →
usedLegalSystem	English common law →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Mobile, Alabama ("Spanish West Florida") → Mobile, Alabama ("British West Florida") →	partOf
Adelantado of Florida ("La Florida") →	appliesToJurisdiction
Royal Proclamation of 1763 →	appliesToTerritory
East Florida →	borderedBy
West Florida ("Governor and Council of West Florida") →	governingBody
British America →	hasPart
War of Jenkins' Ear ("Florida (Spanish colony)") →	location
West Florida ("Spanish West Florida") →	subsequentEntity