North of Apalache, in the province of Apalachicola, traders from Charles Town were taking over the Indian trade. Although Apalachicola was not Christian, it had come within the Spanish sphere of influence since the 1640s. Florida governors countered the Anglo advance with gifts, warnings, and buffer zones of hastily founded "live missions." But the lure of English manufactures proved too powerful to resist. Between 1684 and 1706 most of the Christian Indians of Florida deserted their doctrinas for a life of liberty without chiefs, friars, or soldiers. AN133 First the Guales defected, then the Apalaches, then the Timucuans. When Colonel James Moore of South Carolina invaded the province of Apalache in 1704, during Queen Anne's War, he was surprised at the number of mission residents who volunteered to go back with him. The commoners were in rebellion. (Bushnell SS)