Raids on Apalachee in Florida

Date: January 25, 1704 • Location: Hamlet, United States

English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of raids against the largely peaceful population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.

Carolina, officially the Province of Carolina, was a province of Great Britain in America that existed from 1663 until 1712; when the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina partitioned it into the provinces of North Carolina and South Carolina. Today it makes up a significant part of the U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.