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George Kotlik

George Kotlik

George Kotlik studied British colonial North American history at the University of Oxford. George has an MA in Political Science from Sul Ross State University. His interests include Loyalists, the eighteenth-century North American frontier, the Great War for the Empire, the Imperial Crisis, and the American Revolutionary War.

Culture, Frontier, Letters and Correspondence March 16, 2022 March 16, 2022

Benjamin Franklin’s East Florida Warning

On July 25, 1768, Benjamin Franklin set his friend, Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas, straight. Dumas, a man of letters who would later serve as an American…

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Critical Thinking, Historiography, Maps and Cartography August 4, 2021 August 5, 2021

Phraseology and the “Fourteenth Colony”

The phrase “fourteenth colony” describes a province in British North America that did not revolt alongside the original thirteen colonies. Such a province usually…

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Frontier, Native Americans, Prewar Politics (<1775), Primary Sources June 28, 2021 June 25, 2021

Charlotina

In the fall of 1763, a pamphlet was published in Edinburgh titled The Expediency of Securing Our American Colonies by Settling the Country Adjoining…

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Arts & Literature, Culture, Historic Sites, People, Preservation, Travel June 1, 2021 June 2, 2021

Following William Bartram’s Footsteps in Northeast Florida

From 1765 to 1766, botanist John Bartram explored Florida, the new southern territory Britain acquired after the Seven Years’ War. William Bartram, his son,…

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Features, Loyalists, The War Years (1775-1783) April 19, 2021 April 18, 2021

Review: Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic

Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic by Brad A. Jones (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021) In Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the…

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Features, Reviews, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) April 5, 2021 March 31, 2021

Review: Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty

Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty by Jack Kelly (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2021) Scholarly focus on decisive military actions…

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Loyalists, People, The War Years (1775-1783) March 30, 2021 May 19, 2021

Five Women of British East Florida

In the male-dominated historical record of East Florida during the era of the American Revolution, a few women stand out as noteworthy. Most women…

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Loyalists, People, The War Years (1775-1783) March 10, 2021 March 8, 2021

Robert Bisset’s East Florida Holdings

Captain Robert Bisset arrived in East Florida in 1767. Immediately upon his coming, he set to work on establishing himself as a planter. For…

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Law, Slavery and Indentured Servitude, The War Years (1775-1783) March 3, 2021 March 1, 2021

Seventeen Testimonies Seal New Smyrna’s Fate, 1777

In March 1777, while Andrew Turnbull was away in England, several Minorcans escaped New Smyrna and fled to St. Augustine, East Florida. They hiked seventy…

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Features, Reviews, The War Years (1775-1783) January 4, 2021 January 25, 2021

Review: Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era

Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era by Mike Bunn. (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2020) In Fourteenth Colony, Mike…

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Frontier, Logistics, Native Americans, The War Years (1775-1783) December 29, 2020 December 27, 2020

Texas and the American Revolution

In discussions on the American Revolutionary War, the contributions of Texas are seldom brought up.[1] But in the 1770s, Texas, inhabited by Spaniards and…

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Illness and Disease, Strategy, The War Years (1775-1783), War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) September 22, 2020 September 24, 2020

The British Invade Nicaragua: The San Juan Expedition

According to Andrew Jackson O’ Shaughnessy, the San Juan Expedition was among “the most ambitious enterprises of the American Revolutionary War.”[1] In 1779, after Spain’s…

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Historic Sites, People, The War Years (1775-1783) August 27, 2020 September 1, 2020

Minorcans, New Smyrna, and the American Revolution in East Florida

Beyond Florida’s state boundaries the history of New Smyrna is seldom mentioned.[1] Well known to the locals of New Smyrna Beach, the region’s settlement by…

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Features, People, Reviews July 29, 2020 July 26, 2020

The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington by Martha Saxton (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) Historians who have studied Mary Ball Washington…

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Features, Memoir, Reviews, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) June 8, 2020 June 17, 2020

Sailing Under John Paul Jones: The Memoir of Continental Navy Midshipman Nathaniel Fanning

Sailing Under John Paul Jones: The Memoir of Continental Navy Midshipman Nathaniel Fanning, 1778-1783, edited by Louis Arthur Norton. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company,…

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Battles, Loyalists, The War Years (1775-1783) April 2, 2020 April 2, 2020

The British Invasion of the Bahamas, 1783: One of the Final Actions of the American Revolution

Tucked away in a small corner of history and buried deep beneath mountains of text lie brief mentions of the British invasion of the…

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Loyalists, Newspapers, Postwar Politics (>1783), Primary Sources February 26, 2020 March 4, 2020

The East Florida Gazette, 1783–1784

East Florida only had one newspaper in the colony’s entire history. The newspaper went live during the final year of the American War for…

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Features, Reviews February 19, 2020 February 20, 2020

Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother

Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother by Craig Shirley (Harper, 2019) Rare indeed is the historian of early American history who…

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Conflict & War, Loyalists, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) September 4, 2019 September 5, 2019

James Moore’s Commission in the East Florida Rangers

Under the leadership of Royal Governor Patrick Tonyn, East Florida remained in the hands of the British Crown during the Imperial Crisis, not an…

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Documents, Loyalists, Primary Sources June 24, 2019 June 24, 2019

Thomas Fletchall’s Association: A Loyalist Proclamation in the South Carolina Backcountry

Thomas Fletchall was a man of considerable influence in the South Carolina backcountry. Born in Maryland in 1725, Fletchall and his family relocated to…

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Letters and Correspondence, People, Prewar Conflict (<1775) May 6, 2019 May 5, 2019

“My Dear Nell:” The Love Letters of John Moultrie

Dr. John Moultrie was born in 1729 in South Carolina to a father of the same name, one of five brothers. Educated in Edinburgh,…

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Letters and Correspondence, Loyalists, People, The War Years (1775-1783) April 9, 2019 April 9, 2019

James Bruce’s Report on the Situation of West Florida and Havana, 1782

The British loss of West Florida in 1781 ushered in a new era for the region, an era dominated by Spanish rule. For some,…

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Conflict & War, Letters and Correspondence, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) March 19, 2019 March 19, 2019

Brothers Mourn the Death of Captain Thomas Moultrie

Thomas Moultrie was one of five sons of a successful South Carolina planter. He served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War as…

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Diaries and Journals, Loyalists, People February 18, 2019 February 18, 2019

Loyalist James Allen’s Reflection on the State of the Colonies

A councilman by profession, James Allen, esquire, lived in Philadelphia during the early years of the American Revolution. A man of considerable social prominence…

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People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Speeches and Addresses October 2, 2018 October 4, 2019

James Grant’s American Confession

In American history, the name James Grant became synonymous with advocacy for British supremacy in colonial matters. For much of Grant’s early military career,…

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Features, Loyalists, The War Years (1775-1783) May 3, 2018 May 2, 2018

William Taylor: Loyalist Refugee in East Florida

During the War for American Independence, displaced Loyalists from the southern colonies sought refuge in East Florida. Due to a large influx of refugees,…

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