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Although members of the Florida Historical Society and several Sumter County veterans organizations sponsored a commemorative day held on December 28, 1966, [47] the first reenactment of Dade's Massacre was held on December 28, 1980, for the battle's 145th anniversary. [48]
Dade Monument, St. Augustine National Cemetery The Dade battle (often called the Dade massacre) was an 1835 military defeat for the United States Army.. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 the U.S. was attempting to force the Seminoles to move away from their land in Florida provided by the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (following the American annexation of Spanish Florida see the Adams-Onis ...
On December 28, 1835, 180 Seminoles ambushed Major Francis L. Dade and his two U.S. Army companies of 110 soldier, resulting in the Dade battle. All but three of Dade's men were killed. The massacre began the Second Seminole War. A regiment of Tennessee militiamen [6] led by Major Robert Armstrong, built Fort Armstrong at the site of Dade's ...
After the Dade Massacre on 28 December 1835, the Second Seminole War was escalated with armed skirmishes and guerilla warfare. Early in the Second Seminole War, the strategically located town of Palatka, Florida Territory was attacked and burned by a group of Seminole Indians and their allies. Most surviving white settlers and black slaves fled ...
A Correct and Authentic Narrative of the Indian War in Florida: with Description of Maj. Dade's Massacre, and an Account of the Extreme Suffering, for Want of Provisions, of the Army. New York: J. Narine, Printer; Bemrose, John (1966). Reminiscences of the Second Seminole War. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
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The battle (often called the Dade massacre) was an 1835 military defeat for the United States Army. [7] The U.S. attempted to force the Seminoles to move away from their land in Florida and relocate to Oklahoma Indian Territory. Instead, under the command of Major Francis L. Dade, consisting of 110 soldiers were ambushed by 180 Seminole ...
The battle (sometimes called the Dade massacre) was an 1835 military defeat for the United States Army and is often recognized as the beginning of the Second Seminole War. [8] The U.S. attempted to force the Seminoles to move away from their land in Florida and relocate to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.