Was the Annexation of Florida Inevitable?

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Curious on all of your thoughts: do you think the annexation of Florida by the United States was inevitable?
 
Curious on all of your thoughts: do you think the annexation of Florida by the United States was inevitable?
It could be later than OTL, but it would occur anyway. As soon as American settlers appeared in large enough quantities (tens of thousands at very most), the annexation would become inevitable. I know that the Everglades were almost uninhabited before the last century, but Florida doesn't consist of the Everglades only.
 
Yes.

It only had roughly 3,000 Spaniards at the time of British annexation and they all left...and even BEFORE the ARW started East Florida got back nearly to that number in Anglos, before a new influx of Loyalist settlers.

And even when all THOSE British subjects left, no Spanish could be convinced to come to Florida, and so Spain had to sell land package deals to the now-Americans/former ARW Patriots.

It's going to be very hard.
 
Curious on all of your thoughts: do you think the annexation of Florida by the United States was inevitable?

In my Black Hawk Up TL Britain annexed West Florida as a result of Britain doing better in the War of 1812 however southern florida was occupied by Russians as result of the Monroe-Metternich Treaty.
 
If you don't mind me asking, what was your logic for this bit?

President Crawford thought he could score a displomatic coup over the British (destested for their victory in the War of 1812) by inviting the Holy Alliance into the Western Hemisphere as allies. The Russians are assigned southern Florida while Mexico is mostly a Prussian/Austrian responsibility). There is also an expedition to Haiti which will include the French.
 
Most likely, but if Spain became an Ally, sold it to an Ally, or Britian took it for its own uses, then (more likely East) Florida could probably remain free of American Ownership.
 
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