In 1763 Great Britain organized the colony of East Florida, which formed the entirety of what is now the state of Florida East of the Apalachicola River.
In East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785 , George Kotlik provides the first comprehensive and detailed history of British East Florida, drawing attention to the colony\'s early development and connection to the American Revolution..
In 1775, a violent border war erupted between East Florida and the state of Georgia; two noteworthy Revolutionary War battles were fought on East Florida soil; and three American invasions failed to bring East Florida into the rebellion.
Such relegation leads many to assume that nothing significant must have happened there, but nothing is further from the truth.
Today, the history of East Florida is seldom studied, relegated to the outskirts of Colonial and Revolutionary Era literature, if the colony is mentioned at all.
In 1763 Great Britain organized the colony of East Florida, which formed the entirety of what is now the state of Florida East of the Apalachicola River
