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FLAGS OF FLORIDA--THE STATE OF MUSKOGEE

STATE OF MUSKOGEE 1799-1803 English adventurer WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BOWLES designed this flag after a congress of CREEKS and SEMINOLES elected him Director General of the State of Muskogee in 1799. The capital of this state was the Indian village of MIKASUKE (near the present day Tallahassee). Bowles was captured, turned over to SPANISH authorities in 1803, and later died in a HAVANA prison. THE STATE OF MUSKOGEE came to an end. http://www.dos.state.fl.us/dhr/flafacts/fla_flag.html http://www.fsu.umd.edu/dept/mdfl/mbolovan/florida.htm

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