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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 ...
The Second Seminole War, often referred to as the Seminole War, is regarded as "the longest and most costly of the Indian conflicts of the United States". [12] After the Treaty of Payne's Landing in 1832 that called for the Seminoles' removal from Florida, tensions rose until fierce hostilities occurred in Dade's massacre in 1835.
Fort Heilman - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Homer W. Hesterly [17] Fort Hooker; Fort Houston, in Tallahassee, Civil War; Fort Jackson - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Jefferson; Fort Jupiter - Second Seminole War Fort. [5] pp. 190, 193. Fort Keais; Fort Keats - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort King - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Kingsbury ...
The fort was activated as a base for the United States removal of the Seminole to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, in 1832, as part of the Treaty of Payne's Landing. The Second Seminole War, beginning in late 1835 in central Florida, heightened the importance of the fort. It was a center of United States military activity during ...
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s.
The Wahoo area served as a sheltered area for the Seminoles during the Second Seminole War. [81] The United States Army and the Seminoles fought the Battle of the Withlacoochee River near the town on December 29, 1835. In addition, the army searched the area several times during the Second Seminole War.
Fort Gardiner was a stockaded fortification with two blockhouses that was built in 1837 by the United States Army.It was one of the military outposts created during the Second Seminole War to assist Colonel Zachary Taylor's troops to capture Seminole Indians and their allies in the central part of the Florida Territory that were resisting forced removal to federal territory west of the ...
1835–1842: Second Seminole War. 1836 March 16: Richard K. Call is appointed Territorial Governor of Florida by Andrew Jackson. 1837: Fort Ann was established on the eastern shore of the Indian River in what is now Brevard County. 1838 January 26: Calhoun County is established. 1839