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Rennie Heuer said:
The 13 original colonies, IIRC.
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Technically there were 15 continental colonies but East and West Florida decided they liked being under the British crown more and fought (rather vigorously I might add) on the side of the Loyalists. Then England threw them under the Spanish bus for a few years for political expediency until the Onís-Adams Treaty brought them into US territory in 1819 as the Spanish couldn't deal with Florida either.
  1. 1513–1698 - Spanish Florida encompassed all of present-day Florida plus portions of Georgia,[1] Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Louisiana. Spain's claim to this vast area was based on several wide-ranging expeditions mounted during the 16th century. A number of missions, settlements, and small forts existed in the 16th and to a lesser extent in the 17th century;
  2. 1763 - Great Britain gained control of the long-established Spanish colony of La Florida in 1763 as part of the treaty ending the French and Indian War. Deciding one Florida wasn't enough Britain split the the territory in two to make it easier to administer.
  3. 1783 - As part of the 1783 treaty in which Britain officially recognized the independence of thirteen of its former colonies as the United States, it ceded both Floridas back to Spain, which maintained them as separate colonies while moving the boundary east to the Suwannee River.
  4. By 1817, much of Spanish West Florida had been occupied and annexed by the United States over Spanish objections, with the land eventually becoming portions of the states of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi.
  5. 1819 - Spain formally ceded all of its Florida territory to the U.S. under the Adams–Onís Treaty in 1819 (ratified in 1821), in exchange for the U.S. ceding its claims on Texas and the U.S. paying any claims its citizens might have against Spain, up to $5,000,000.
  6. 1821 - the U.S. Congress organized the Florida Territory.
  7. 1845 - Florida was admitted as the 27th state of the United States.
  8. The rest, as they say is history.
 
I will post more of the stars getting painted/peeled later. Just wanted to update, today we take it in for entry to the fair. CJ got the frame pin nailed on and we decided on a couple of 90# rated eyelets and a chain for a hangar. Pin nailing 2.jpg

Here he is getting the frame installed.


It's Hanging!!.jpg

Took down my old faded out Remington thermometer and killed all the wasps so we had a place to hang it for a picture. It is beautiful.

CJ standing with Flag.jpg

A proud CJ with a project we will remember forever!
 
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