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When the 13 colonies rose up against Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, Florida wasn t in that group. In fact, at the time, Florida wasn’t even a single colony. Here s a look at the history of West Florida, the forgotten 14th colony.
“The name of the colony is West Florida, said Mike Bunn, a member of the board of directors of the Alabama Historical Association and is Director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama. A lot of people get that geographic reference stuck in their head and they think we’re talking specifically about the Pensacola area. But in truth it was a large swath of the Gulf Coast.”