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oecusioned the sane discontent we should experience were 1:9 ordered to transfer our. re si da nee there today, ^any deserted, and a ccapany of ^r.nrvi oa , soldiers distinguished for*fICelitjj. having cnbarlccd at ~iIo:d for -ew Orleans, as coon as they got into deep rater, prat the t^csel about- and n&de for Charleston, South Carolina. V?e must condemn the mutiny, "but- tho inci&snt shows that the non of that day properly appreciated the advantages of this deli fitful region.
-he prosperity of this section and of all Louisiana^ tras seriously affected by the disastrous wars of -^Suis 2-lV.
In 175B“9, Quebec and ” ait real. and all Canada, had been surrendered to tie English, the 10th of *Aarch, 1763, by the treaty of-^aris, France surrendered to England all her possessions in licrth America east of the Mississippi river, ^t tho same tine, Spain ceded to the English her colonies of EaSt and ^est •^lorida. i<est Florida extendsd from Apalachicola river to tho Mississippi} and was bounded on tho north by tho 51st. degree of latitude; south, by the Gull* of i>-exico, -and/an. imaginary line drawn, rnid-channe 1, through lahes -^ontchartraih end ^aurepas, and tho rivers Amit-e and •‘•borvilte , (lianchao) to the Mississippi. Pensacola became the provincial Leat of government, witia garrison end nil it cry govern:# nt at Mobile.'
About the cane time the island of 11 qv Orleans, and all the French territory west of the Mississippi, were ceded to Spain.
Si\e soon became involved in a no;? war with England, and in 1-799, Son Bernard de Galvez, tho ablest of the Spanish Governors of I'diisiana, attached arid carried the British forts at Mobile,
Baton ^cuga, and ^ensacol'a; ana "i-est xlorida, including this Sea-c-oast, ws.s surrendered to the Spaniards.
?hus, in the course of a few* years, our predecessors on these peaceful shores, had been subject tc three flags—the silver lilies of France—the gorgeous banner of Spain—and the hlood-rcd cross of England—each of them representatives of the faith of Christ—cf chivalry, dominion end civilization!
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-he Spaniards held ECuisiana_until the jeer 1600, when it pas ceded to napoleon Bonaparte, *irst Consul of the i'rsneh Republic, with all its original rratcs and bounds, which carried its eastern boundary to the ^erdido river.
Napoleon, with half of Europe in srns against his, and threatened by the naritine superiority of England, found hin-self unable to tahe pjossessicn of the province; and to prevent its sa-izurs bv the Eri "llsh, hg_ sold it to tho unitea ^atss -^pril oQtb. In0':'. Un the SOtn ->ovonber following, the American Coiwiiis-siorern, C-ov. Claiborne, of the Mississippi territory, ana Gen. I'illsinscjn, of the U. s. Ari^r, tool-c possession and hoisted the United States flag in the ^lacs d1 -^-rras.
Under this cession of Louisiana, tho United States clair^sd the country to the -^erdido, including this ^3a-cofst and Mobile. ~ut th5 Spaniards insisted that -^earl river was the eastern boundary of Louisiana. They occupied Mobile and -^ensacola with