23 September 1810
#KnowSouthernHistory
On this date in 1810 - Florida rebels overran the Spanish garrison at Baton Rouge and unfurled the Bonnie Blue Flag over the new Republic of West Florida.
Other Years:
1561 - King Philip II of Spain prohibited Spanish settlements in Florida.
1861 - Kansas jayhawkers and redlegs of the Kansas Brigade commanded by Sen. James H. Lane sacked the town of Osceola, Missouri and executed nine local citizens.
1875 – Henry McCarty also known as William "Billy the Kid" Bonney was arrested for the first time in Silver City, New Mexico.
1957 - White protestors forced nine black students who had entered Little Rock’s Central High School in Arkansas to withdraw.
Read: Why Know Southern History?
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