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PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN-100820329215
ISBN-139780820329215
eBay Product ID (ePID)57186536
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOther War of 1812: the Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida
Publication Year2007
SubjectMilitary / War of 1812, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 19th Century, Military / United States
TypeTextbook
AuthorJames G. Cusick
Subject AreaHistory
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2006-031816
Reviews"[Cusick] has done a great job of bringing in both Spanish and English language sources, something that many Americanists are unwilling or unable to do. In this sense Cusick is both rescuing and blazing a path for American diplomatic, political, and military history. . . . This is a strong book that updates and reevaluates an important chapter in southern, American, and borderlands history."-- Journal of American History, "A superb, highly readable history of events as seen in the local context."--American Historical Review, "Cusick's research should inspire renewed interest in the still mysterious and largely misunderstood Florida borderlands. As such, this work should prove appealing to regional, national, and Atlantic world historians."-- Journal of the Early Republic, "Cusick's research should inspire renewed interest in the still mysterious and largely misunderstood Florida borderlands. As such, this work should prove appealing to regional, national, and Atlantic world historians."--Journal of the Early Republic, A carefully researched history of Spanish East Florida's Patriot War, a complicated conflict that involved covert action by American forces, greedy border marauders from Georgia, rebels inside the province, Spanish troops and provincial white militia, free black militia, and Seminole warriors (both Indian and African American)., "Greatly expands our understanding of how the Patriot War of 181213, a truly forgotten conflict, was interwoven with the War of 1812, American expansion, and developing ideas about free armed blacks living in the Spanish-American borderlands of Florida. Ultimately, the acquisition of Florida-a process that began with the Patriot War-would be the only way to satisfy American territorial ambitions and racial fears."--Gene A. Smith, Texas Christian University, Greatly expands our understanding of how the Patriot War of 1812-13, a truly forgotten conflict, was interwoven with the War of 1812, American expansion, and developing ideas about free armed blacks living in the Spanish-American borderlands of Florida. Ultimately, the acquisition of Florida-a process that began with the Patriot War-would be the only way to satisfy American territorial ambitions and racial fears., "Greatly expands our understanding of how the Patriot War of 1812-13, a truly forgotten conflict, was interwoven with the War of 1812, American expansion, and developing ideas about free armed blacks living in the Spanish-American borderlands of Florida. Ultimately, the acquisition of Florida-a process that began with the Patriot War-would be the only way to satisfy American territorial ambitions and racial fears."--Gene A. Smith, Texas Christian University, "A carefully researched history of Spanish East Florida's Patriot War, a complicated conflict that involved covert action by American forces, greedy border marauders from Georgia, rebels inside the province, Spanish troops and provincial white militia, free black militia, and Seminole warriors (both Indian and African American). The result of the war was devastation of the province's plantations and an end to a remarkable period of economic expansion."--Daniel L. Schafer, University of North Florida, "While historians like Rembert Patrick and more recently Joseph B. Smith have explored the Patriot War, James G. Cusick has finally produced an expertly researched account that puts this conflict in the greater context of Southern and borderlands history. . . . The Other War of 1812 retells an interesting tale of a seminal moment in both Florida and Southern history. Its research is solid, and it raises important questions about race, culture, and political ideology that both historians and lay readers will want to ponder. It rates a place on the thankfully growing list of essential Florida history titles."-- H-Net, "A superb, highly readable history of events as seen in the local context."-- American Historical Review
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal973.5/2309759
SynopsisCusick, a lively storyteller as well as a meticulous scholar, conveys the savagery of the borderlands conflict that pitted American adventurers and anti-Spanish partisans against Spanish loyalists and their allies, who included Seminole Indians and escaped slaves., James Cusick tells the story of an early-19th-century American plot that went desperately wrong, plunging the United States into an undeclared war for possession of Spanish East Florida and provoking a conflict that would embarrass the president, destroy a colony, and reshape forever the nature of life in the American South. When the administration of James Madison secretly decided to attempt to overthrow the Spanish colony, it set in motion an invasion that could not be halted--the Patriot War, one of the great but little-known conflicts of the early American republic. In March of 1812, on the eve of a major war with Great Britain, the United States became embroiled in a military invasion of the Florida peninsula that escalated into two years of increasing mayhem. Instead of an easy conquest aided by local rebels, the president discovered that his agent, General George Mathews, a former governor of Georgia, had spearheaded a covert and unjustifiable military occupation of Spanish territory. The drastic action stunned national and international sensibilities, and within weeks a public debate was raging about the rightness of American actions. People in Georgia rose in protest over the Spaniards' willingness to use black troops and militia to defend Spanish rights. At the same time, settlers in East Florida, incensed at having a foreign military presence on their soil, began a propaganda campaign in the press to denounce President Madison's actions. The U.S. Army and Georgia militia, assisted by local volunteers known as Patriots, put St. Augustine under siege, seized towns and forts, and destroyed livestock and homesteads; by 1813 warfare had developed into a vendetta with practicallyevery plantation and farmstead between the Georgia border and Cape Canaveral looted or consigned to flames. This new account of the Patriot War, drawing on Spanish and American sources, focuses on eyewitness accounts recovered from correspondence, military reports, newspaper articles, and claims for financial compensation. Written in a lively style, it places events in a broad context, tying the attempted conquest of Spanish territory into larger issues of American history., Resurrecting a forgotten chapter in transatlantic history, James G. Cusick tells how, just before the United States went to war against Great Britain in 1812, an ill-advised invasion of a Spanish colony became a stage on which the young republic clumsily acted out its imperial ambitions and racial fears. With the halfhearted backing of President James Madison and Secretary of State James Monroe, a party of Georgians invaded East Florida, confident that partisans there would help them swiftly wrest the colony away from Spain. The raid was a strategic and political disaster. Few sympathizers materialized, official U.S. support dissolved, and an extended guerrilla war ensued. This was the "other war of 1812," or the Patriot War. Cusick, a lively storyteller as well as a meticulous scholar, conveys the savagery of the borderlands conflict that pitted American adventurers and anti-Spanish partisans against Spanish loyalists and their allies, who included Seminole Indians and escaped slaves. At the same time, Cusick looks at the American motivations behind the invasion, including apprehensions about Florida's growing population of unregulated blacks and geopolitical intrigues involving Spain, Britain, and France.
LC Classification NumberE359.5.F6C87 2007
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- 07. Apr. 2021
The Florida we never knew
This book is an excellent analysis of the people, place, problems and politics about the preventative war on our southeastern border.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
