Abstract
In an effort to check the expansion of the American frontiersmen onto Indian lands after the American Revolution, William Augustus Bowles, self-styled head of the Creek-Cherokee Nation, and later “Director-General of the State of Muskogee,” wrote the Spanish minister of state, the Conde de Floridablanca, in 1791. Bowles asked for Spanish protection for the Creeks and Cherokees and urged a wider alliance or confederation of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Creeks. He also suggested that Spain modify its commercial restrictions and remove the monopoly which had been granted the firm of William Panton, Thomas Forbes, and Robert Leslie, and instead open Florida ports to all nations - especially Muscogee - on a free and unimpeded basis. Spain not unnaturally refused to grant this request.
Recommended Citation
Holmes, Jack D. L.
(1970)
"Luis Bertucat and William Augustus Bowles: West Florida Adversaries In 1791,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 49:
No.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol49/iss1/7
