The years 1764 through 1845 were a time of immense changes for the land called Florida. The change from Spanish rule to British Rule profoundly affected the population makeup of the land. Spanish subjects departed to Cuba, the Bahamas or even to Spain, depopulating the region. British settlers came slowly, bringing with them slaves and indentured servants. Their brief twenty-year reign introduced the large-scale production of sugar cane, indigo and citrus to Florida. In 1783, this British colony was again lost, this time as a result of the colony's loyalty to England during the American Revolution. The Spanish regained the land, expanding on the sugar industry, making Florida an integral part of their flourishing transatlantic trade. By the early 1800s, however, America became dissatisfied with the Spanish colony along their southern border, and the United States eventually gained control of the land through a peace treaty.