1811: Congress Authorizes Military Takeover of Spanish East Florida
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On January 15 th , 1811, the Congress authorized the Madison administration to use
military force to change the Spanish colonial regime in East Florida and annex the region to the
United States territories.
Source: Kushi and Toft (2022), "Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019". Journal of Conflict Resolution