Forgotten Filibusters: Private Hostile Expeditions From the United States Into Spanish Texas, 1812-1821

The thesis also studies these filibusters in the context of contemporaneous relations between Spain and the United States. In the early years of the nineteenth century, these two nations engaged in a number of acrimonious disputes over Florida and Texas. These disputes frequently led Spanish officials to assume that the United States government was involved with the filibusters. Issues between the two governments also had relevance to the filibustering expeditions in other ways. Thus in surrendering American claims to Texas, for example, the Adams-Onis treaty of 1819 directly inspired James Long to conduct his invasion of Texas in the same year.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Bradley, Edward Austin

Contributors dc:contributor

• Johannsen, Robert W.

• History, United States

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9921665

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84747