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130 Fort Macintosh Georgia. As continental troops pushed the British out of most of New Jersey, other parts of the country were inspired to get more active as well.

Patriots had taken over Georgia, forcing most of the Tories in that colony to flee to East Florida, mostly St. Augustine.

I guess the first question to address is why Florida did not join the rest of the colonies in the protests

and later rebellion and independence. The short answer is that there really wasn't much to

Florida at the time. Britain had only acquired Florida at the end of the

seven years war in exchange for returning Cuba to Spain. When Spain withdrew from Florida, all but eight Spanish subjects left as well.

Britain had attempted to attract new settlers, but it had little luck. Many of the British landowners in Florida by the 1770s

were absentee land speculators who were still not quite sure if Florida was going back to Spain at some point in the future.

The oppressive heat and mosquitoes did not make the area particularly attractive for settlement.

Florida itself was divided into east and west Florida.

East Florida covered most of what is today the state of Florida and had its capital at St Augustine.

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