(lively patriotic music) - [Narrator] What did the land that would become Alabama look like during the American Revolution?

Parts of present day Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the Florida panhandle were called West Florida and controlled by the British Empire.

Pensacola and Mobile were the two largest towns in West Florida.

Outside the settlements, the primary residents of Alabama were Indigenous tribes, including the Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Chickasaw.

Because of its detachment from the 13 colonies, West Florida was left alone for the first three years of the revolution.

That changed after the Battle of Mobile and the subsequent Siege of Pensacola, resulting in Spanish control of West Florida.

When the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War, the British relinquished all land east of the Mississippi River to the new nation.