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  2. Fort Shannon - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Fort Fulton - Wikipedia

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    Fort Fulton was most likely abandoned, and burned down, sometime around the end of the Second Seminole War in 1842. One map from 1846 includes Fort Fulton, but it is not likely that it was an active military post, or still standing, at that time. Today, the site where Fort Fulton once stood is overgrown with tangled weeds, vines and thick woods.

  4. Fort Gardiner - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Second Seminole War - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of forts in Florida - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Fort Hanson - Wikipedia

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    Fort Hanson was a blockhouse fortification built in 1838 by the United States Army as one of a chain of military outposts created during the Second Seminole War. These fortifications were located near vital road and waterway routes, or were built within a day’s journey of one another.

  8. Prospect Bluff Historic Sites - Wikipedia

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    Prospect Bluff Historic Sites (until 2016 known as Fort Gadsden Historic Site, and sometimes written as Fort Gadsden Historic Memorial) [4] is located in Franklin County, Florida, on the Apalachicola River, 6 miles (9.7 km) SW of Sumatra, Florida.

  9. History of Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Wikipedia

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    During the second Seminole War, Major William Lauderdale led his Tennessee Volunteers into the area. In 1838, Lauderdale erected a fort on the New River at the site of the modern city of Fort Lauderdale (where SW 9th Avenue meets SW 4th Court). Lauderdale left after one month, but his name remained.