For those readers interested in tying loose threads through history together, I THINK that it was this conflict with the Spanish which generated the single star flag/flags of those southern states along the gulf coast.  And it is was those flags that along about 1861 inspired........ ta da.......     THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, which though it did not last very long as a flag, was immortalized by Harry Marcarthy in song, and in the Politically Correct Climate of today, still manages to hang in there although DIXIE has long since been banished.  

Randy Cabell
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> William C C Claiborne as governor of the Mississippi Territory had a very
> difficult time with the treatment of Americans (passports, etc) by the
> Spanish administration of Florida. The threat from the Spanish was reason
> enough for raising a large militia force.
> Later while Governor of the Louisiana Territory, Claiborne even threatened
> invasion of West Florida.
> 
>    Peter Parrish in Richmond
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