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José Masot, also known as José Fascot, was a Spanish soldier and commander who was Governor of West Florida from March 8, 1816 - May 26, 1818. He was West Florida's governor through much of the First Seminole War, until he was deposed by American general Andrew Jackson and replaced with William King. He also was subdelegate of the Intendant and superintendent general in Florida.〔United States Congress (1834). (American state papers : documents, legislative and executive, of the Congress of the United States. Volumen 4 ). Library of University of Michigan: Law school. Page 123.〕 == Biography == José Masot was born between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He joined in his youth to the Spanish Navy, where his talent in the Army promoted him to the post of Colonel.〔Francisco de Boria Cienfuegos - Jovellanos González-Coto (November 2004). (Memorias del artillero José María Cienfuegos Jovellanos (1763-1825) ) (in Spanish: Memories of striker Jose Maria Cienfuegos Jovellanos (1763-1825)). Editorial: Ideas de Metal. Page 231 〕 He was appointed governor of West Florida in March 8, 1816. During his governorship there was an uprising of black slaves, which was severely punished.〔Magazine ''Esclavitud negra en América'' (In Spanish: Black slavery in America).〕 On the First Seminole War, after a garrison of the Negro Fort (where settled many runaway slaves from The Carolinas) killed a group of American sailors, General Andrew Jackson decided to destroy it. In April 1816, Jackson informed Masot that if the Spanish did not eliminate the Negro Fort, he would. Masot replied that he did not have the forces to take the fort. Jackson assigned Brigadier General Edmund Pendleton Gaines to take control of the fort. In July 1816, a supply fleet for Fort Scott reached the Apalachicola River. the military Clinch took a force of more than 100 American soldiers and about 150 Lower Creek warriors, including the chief ''Tustunnugee Hutkee'' (White Warrior), to protect their passage. The supply fleet met Clinch at the Negro Fort, and its two gunboats took positions across the river from the fort. The blacks in the fort fired their cannon at the U.S. soldiers and the Creek, but had no training in aiming the weapon. The Americans fired back. The gunboats' ninth shot, a "hot shot" (a cannonball heated to a red glow), landed in the fort's powder magazine. The explosion leveled the fort and was heard more than 100 miles (160 km) away in Pensacola. Of the 320 people known to be in the fort, including women and children, more than 250 died instantly, and many more died from their injuries soon after. Once the US Army destroyed the fort, it withdrew from Spanish Florida. 〔Missall, John and Mary Lou Missall. 2004. ''The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict''. University Press of Florida. Pages 27 - 32. ISBN 0-8130-2715-2.〕 On November 11, 1817 several officers and cadets of the Infantry Regiment of Louisiana´s Fixed met in Pensacola, in home of Lieutenant Henry Grandpre, and they decided to kill the governor and give the command to commander Luis Piernas or to of artillery coronel Diego Vera. The plot was discovered, but Masot send news of what happened to Captain General of Cuba (in the Spanish empire, Florida was governed by Cuba) who suspected him of a certain relationship between the conspirators and the American troops that had entered the territory of the Apalachicola and whose number is estimated at nearly 4,000 men. He feared that it would produce a similar situation to produced in Baton Rouge and Mobile. In May 24 of 1818, the Americans occupied the square of Florida's capital, Pensacola, and, after a confrontation with gunfire, that lasted several days, Masot gave up and he formally handed West Florida to the armed forces of United States in May 26, 1818. in fact, the Spanish commander gave all he had. With the capture of Pensacola, Andrew Jackson ended his campaign and Colonel William King was appointed as governor of West Florida and American troops returned to the U.S.〔Martínez Laínez, Fernando and Canales Torres, Carlos. Banderas lejanas: La exploración, conquista y defensa por parte de España del Territorio de los actuales Estados Unidos (in Spanish: Flags far: The exploration, conquest and defense by Spain of the Territory of the present United States). Pages 138-139. Fourth edition: September 2009. Editorial EDAF.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「José Masot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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