Spanish Louisiana

This project is to discuss and research the Louisiana Territory controlled by Spain for fifty (50) years, 1763-1813.

Recent conversations with David Menk, a former native of Sliddell, Louisiana. He mentioned that West Florida was larger than imaged and extended to the Mississippi River in Louisiana. Thus the name Florida Parishes, eight of them!

Notables

William Blount ---An aggressive land speculator, Blount gradually acquired millions of acres in Tennessee and the trans-Appalachian west. His risky land investments left him in debt, and in the 1790s, he conspired with England to seize the Spanish-controlled Louisiana Territory in hopes of boosting western land prices. When the conspiracy was uncovered in 1797, he was expelled from the Senate, and became the first U.S. public official to face impeachment.[4] Blount nevertheless remained popular in Tennessee, and served in the state senate during the last years of his life....Following France's defeat of Spain in the War of the Pyrenees, land speculators, already on the financial brink, worried that the French would eventually gain control of Spanish-controlled Louisiana, and shut off American access to the Mississippi River.[5]:302 In hopes of preventing this, Blount and his friend, an Indian agent named John Chisholm, concocted a plan to allow Britain to gain control of Florida and Louisiana, and in return give free access to both New Orleans and the Mississippi River to American merchants. The plan called for territorial militias, with the aid of the British fleet, to attack New Madrid, New Orleans and Pensacola.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blount).

Links and Resources

• Rosales' History of the South
• Francisco Cruzat
• Unintended Consequences: The Osage Nation in Spanish Louisiana, 1763-1803
• The Spanish in Colonial Mobile and Alabama, 1780-1813 (Kindle Edition) by John ODonnell Rosales.
• Spanish Colonial Commanders of Mobile, Alabama, 1780-1813: The History of The State of Alabama Series, Booklet 1, Volume 1 (Kindle Edition) by John ODonnell Rosales.
• Spanish Colonial Forts and Posts in Alabama, 1780-1813: The History of the State of Alabama Series, Booklet 3, Volume 3 (Kindle Edition) by John ODonnell Rosales.
• Spanish Colonial Governors of Alabama, 1780-1813: The History ofthe State of Alabama Series, Booklet 2, Volume 2 (The History of the State of Alabama) (Kindle Edition) by John ODonnell Rosales.
• THE DUBROCA FAMILY OF LOUISIANA
• Florida Parishes
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)#:~:text=Louis....