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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.
In October 1837, during the Second Seminole War, Seminole chief Osceola was taken prisoner by the Americans while attending a peace conference near Fort Peyton under a flag of truce. [35] He was imprisoned in Fort Marion along with his followers, including Uchee Billy , King Philip and his son Coacoochee (Wild Cat), and then transported to Fort ...
After the end of the Second Seminole War in 1842, the fort was abandoned, and the area remained largely empty, as the remaining Seminoles withdrew to Pine Island (near present-day Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation), [13] and only a handful of settlers were known to live in all of what eventually became Broward County. [14]
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 ...
Fort White - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort William Fort Zachary Taylor (also Fort Taylor ) – Fort Zachary Taylor should not be confused with the original Florida "Fort Taylor" – entry above, which was built during the Second Seminole War as one of a string of four small, short-lived Forts along the Saint John's River, approximately 280 ...
A 2007 historical fiction that takes place around the time of the First and Second Seminole Wars. [165] Distant Drums, A 1951 film starring Gary Cooper. Shot on location in Florida and takes place during the Second Seminole War. [166] Seminole, A 1953 movie starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Hale that takes place during the Second Seminole War. [167]
Following Osceola's murder of the US Indian agent General Wiley Thompson, in December 1835 Osceola and Micanopy ambushed the forces of Major Francis L. Dade while they were on their way from Fort Brooke to Fort King (near present-day Ocala) in a rout that was dubbed the Dade Massacre, triggering the Second Seminole War. During the war, Fort ...