![An 1804 political cartoon lampoons President Thomas Jefferson for his unsuccessful attempt to include West Florida in the Louisiana Purchase.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/M-Intel-3-4C-Oct10-crop2-760x428.jpg)
Military Heritage October 2010
The Florida Annexation
By Peter KrossAlmost a decade after winning the Revolutionary War against Great Britain, the youthful United States was determined to expand its territorial boundaries and become a truly continental nation. Read more