From the book Away All Boats: The Undeclared Spanish-American Naval Conflict Of 1820 by Sir Maurice Richard, copyright 1965
  Royal Canadian Historical Institute:

It was six years after the Lisbon Conference treaty was signed that the UKAC had its first serious military confrontation with one of the conference powers. The Spanish Social Confederation had controlled Florida for generations, but of late Florida’s colonists had grown tired of Madrid’s iron-fisted rule and wanted to break away from Spain. With this in mind, a group of the more radical members of the separatist movement secretly approached the Canadian-American government for help in the fall of 1819…

From a bronze plaque at the Royal University of Miami, Principality of Florida, UKAC:

ON THIS SITE IN 1819 THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA FIRST ROSE UP AGAINST OPPRESSION

  From Away All Boats:

Within eight months after the first contact between Floridian anti-Spanish rebels and UKAC government representatives, American naval vessels had begun smuggling supplies and gold to the rebel factions, and it was this smuggling that would prove to be one of the triggers for the Spanish-American naval war of 1820….

From a plaque outside an exhibit hall at the Spanish Naval History Museum, Madrid, Spanish Republic:

This room contains artifacts from the Battle of Key West, the first major naval engagement between the Spanish Republic and the United Kingdom of America and Canada....

From the logbook of the Spanish navy man-of-war Barcelona, entry dated August 17th, 1820:

We have sighted enemy vessels to our north and are making preparations to engage same....

From Away All Boats:

When the Spanish warship Barcelona  made visual contact with the UKAC Royal Navy man-of-war Susquehanna, it signaled the beginning of the country’s first major military confrontation with a foreign power since the end of the North American War of Liberation. The brief but ferocious encounter between the two warships was the opening salvo in a naval conflict that would span most of the next seven months and
serve notice to the Lisbon Conference powers that the United Kingdom could not be trifled with in its own backyard....

From a pamphlet published by the Key West Royal Historical Society:

All day long the Susquehanna fought the Barcelona with every cannon at her disposal; she took horrendous damage at the hands of the Spanish warship, and for a while it seemed as if she would perish. But just when her officers and crew were beginning to fear the worst, one of her forward gunners scored a direct hit on the enemy vessel and broke its center mast in two, robbing the Barcelona ofmuch of its speed and maneuverability; a  second direct hit broke the Spanish warship in two just minutes later…

From the 1945 documentary film Seas Of Fire:

Her hull shattered by the Susquehanna’s guns, the Barcelona slowly disappeared beneath the waters off the coast of Key West with most of her crew still trapped belowdecks. The few sailors who managed to escape from her ruined decks fell into the hands of vengeful American naval personnel who shot and clubbed their foes without hesitation or mercy....

From the first officer’s log of the UKAC Royal Navy man-of-war Susquehanna, entry dated August 19th, 1820:

Our men all in good spirits following our recent victory over the enemy warship. We have laid our dead to rest with appropriate hours and awarded battlefield promotions to four of our junior officers who showed conspicuous gallantry under fire. In spite of the tremendous blows sustained by our hull we are returning to port under our own sail and fully expect to resume our normal patrol duties once the damage has been fully repaired...

From Winters Of Our Discontent:

....The execution of King Henry VIII was one of the most hideous violations of a man’s civil rights in recorded human history. It validated the fears of many people who had opposed the Locksleyite ideology all along and sowed the seeds for future generations of anti-Locksleyite agitation in Britain; furthermore, it darkened the British Social Republic’s reputation abroad. In a distant sense it can even be said to have been a contributing factor in the start of the North American War of Liberation...

From A Monarchy Shattered:

Those who suggest that Henry VIII was ill-treated before his execution understand nothing about the true evil of the despotic regime which he led or the need to exact the sternest possible retribution upon those who have committed crimes against the people of this great nation. Indeed, knowing what we do now about the monarch’s hideous character one may legitimately pose the question of whether perhaps the courts of that day might have been a bit too lenient with him....

From the 2001 documentary Portrait Of An Execution: The Death Of King Henry VIII:

In Henry VIII’s time it was common for large crowds to gather to witness an execution, partly because it was thought that seeing criminals put to death would be morally instructive for the public and partly out of a certain feeling of schadenfreude that it was someone else instead of themselves meeting a gruesome fate. The day Henry himself was put to death people were lining the streets of London in such massive numbers that, as a chronicler of the execution would later observe, a man could have walked the length of the city on their shoulders and never once touched pavement. The execution, a macabre affair to begin with, was made even more so by the fact that the Locksleyite revolutionaries who now controlled Britain had deliberately gone out of their way to make the deposed king’s last moments as agonizing as
humanly possible....

From a British Social Republic propaganda broadside printed circa 1884:

         NO MORE HENRY VIIIs!
         MONARCHISM MUST BE SMASHED!

Notify your local People’s Constabulary branch of any suspected monarchist activity in your city or town

From Portrait Of An Execution:

What modern European scholars have described as “a curtain of blood” showered over the execution platform as Henry and his family were all slaughtered by the Locksleyite executioners. By the time that Henry was finally decapitated, there was scarcely a patch of soil in the area around the execution stand that wasn’t tinged dark red....

From the 1976-84 documentary series UKAC 200: A Bicentennial Look
Back At Our Nation’s History:

Despite its defeat in the North American War of Liberation, the British Social Republic’s expansionist appetites had not been quenched-- in fact, they were steadily growing as the 19th century began. That may have been the primary factor in the BSR’s decision to seek an alliance with Turkey in the early 1800s and back Turkey in its subsequent wars with Russia...

From Winters Of Our Discontent:

Three months after Henry VIII’s execution a group of Tudor loyalists attempted to incite a counterrevolution intended to sweep the Social Republic aside and restore the monarchy to power. Badly disorganized and thoroughly infiltrated by agents of the Locksleyite government, it was doomed to fail from the start-- but just the same it gave the BSR regime to perfect excuse to forge new tools of oppression and make greater use of those it already had....