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Book Review

Canada and the United States

James G. Cusick. The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida. (New Perspectives on the History of the South.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2003. Pp. xvi, 370. $55.00.
The collapse of the Spanish state by fits and starts following the Napoleonic invasion of 1808 allowed problems of race, land, national identity, and ideology originating in the colonial contest for control of the Southeast to combine with the territorial ambitions of the Jeffersonian Republicans and the varied motives of men on the Georgia-Florida frontier to produce violence once again in the spring of 1812. "The other war of 1812" was, James G. Cusick tells us, a southern war only vaguely connected to the war that the United States declared against Spain's ally, Great Britain, in June 1812. Indeed, it began before that declaration of war.	1
Only one part of the history of this "other war" is presented here, with the rest (which culminated in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815) briefly noted (pp. 300–304), as are the steps leading to U.S. acquisition of the Floridas in 1821. The first overt North American reaction to Spain's collapse, the West Florida Rebellion of 1810, receives but passing reference as one of the contexts for what President James Madison, Secretary of State James Monroe, their agent, General (and former governor of Georgia) George Mathews, and the so-called "Patriots" attempted in East Florida beginning in 1811. Cusick concludes that the whole affair was "an early and poorly managed example of the type of armed diplomacy that would be used with more finesse in later years," a result arising from the lack of a formal plan to effect a "forcible seizure of the province" (p. 295). Nonetheless, the wartime destruction of property and East Florida's prosperity helped to persuade Spain to accede to U.S. demands five years after the fighting ended.	. . .

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