- Mainstreet Daily News hosted a three-member panel with local historians on Tuesday night to discuss Florida’s role in the American Revolution.
- Florida remained loyal to Britian during the war, and historians highlighted how at the event, made possible by Florida Humanities and Florida Press Educational Services.
Florida officials declined an invitation to the First Continental Congress in 1774.
West and East Florida, divided by the Apalachicola River, had recently entered British rule after the Seven Years’ War (or French and Indian War) and consequently received an influx of English settlers who had fought for the crown and had no inclination to change loyalties.
In fact, leading Floridians fought against the Revolution in a history lost from the traditional American Revolution narrative…