NOTES TO CHAPTER II

 So well accepted was thi view of reeonquest that the manuscripts relating
to the colonial revolutions in the Arehivo General de Indias at Sevilla were
led under the general heading of "Padseeation."
 SArthur P. Whitaker, Documents Relatng to the Commercial Policy of
Spanls i the Floridas (Deland, Florida, 1931), p. HIi.
 These Indians had remained Spanish allies when most of the great confed-
eracy accepted English suserainty early in the eighteenth century. They
merged with the Oeonees, a Georgia offshoot, receiving the Creek appellation
for "runaway" ("seminole"), which became their common designation. See
John B. Swanton, Barly History of the Creek Indias and Their Neighbors
(Washington, 1922), pp. 398-400. They had long occupied the region of the
Savannah and Apalsahieola rivers. Schooled in the crafty ways of competing
Spanish, English, and United States Indian agents, they were naturally a peo-
ple with little responsibility as a nation, and slight respect for international
conventions.
 Mabel M. Manning, "The East Florida Papers in the Library of Congress,"
Hispeaie Amerioes Historil Review, X (1930):393-894.
 5 Whitaker, op. oit., p. lii.
 *D. Hunter Miller, Secret Btatutes of the United States (Washington,
 1918), possim. This episode is well described in Julius W. Pratt, Zxpaeonusists
 of 1812 (New York, 1925), pp. 60-119.
 Onis to Peuela, August 8, 1812, in A.H.N, Est., 5638.
 Labrador to Onis, October 21, 1812, in A.M.E., 219.
 Onis to Bardaxi, September 8,1811, in AA.HN., Est, 5637.
 SJohn B. Swanton, Indi Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Ad-
 iaent Coasts of the Gl of oMexico (Washington, 1911), pp. 39, 48-4.
 n Whitaker, op. cit., p. liv.
 Bardazd to Onis, November 21, 1811, in A.M.E., 218.
 nIsaae J. Cox, The West Florida Controversy (Baltimore, 1918), pp. 812-
 529.
 "Pratt, op. cit., pp. 226-229.
 Peter J. Hamilton, Colonial Mobile (rev. ed., New York, 1910), p. 431.
 SCharles E. Gayarr6, History of Louisiana (New York, 1854-1866), IV:
 212.
 Thomas M. marshall, History of the Western Boundary of the Louisiana
 Purchase (Berkeley, 1914), p. 23.
 "Walter P. MeCaleb, The Aaron Burr Conspiracy (New York, 1908), pp.
 136-171; Boyal O. Shreve, The Fiished Scoundrel (Indianapolis, 1988), pp.
 171-173, 178, 243.
 s leedo to Miguel de LardisAbal, November 15, 1809, in Biblioteea Na-
 eional (Madrid), Seeeidn de Manuseritos, MS no. 18636:28.
 a Thomas Jefferson, "The Limits and Bounds of Louisiana" in American
 Philosophical Society, Douements Belating to the Purchase and sploration of
 Louisimma (New York, 1904), pp. 5-45; Marshall, op. oit., p. 11. The statement
 that the Bio Grande was the boundary did not even have the backing of Span-
 ish administrative precedent, since the western limit of the Spanish province
 of Texas was at the Nueees, farther east.
 *Herbert E. Bolton, Texas is the Middle Bighteesth Cetury (Berkeley,
 1915), pp. 33-34.
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