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In the mid-1930s Nathanael West wrote a 17-page film treatment entitled Osceola but failed to sell it to a studio. Seminole (1953), highly fictionalized American western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Anthony Quinn as Osceola. Naked in the Sun (1957), the life of Osceola and the Second Seminole War, starring James Craig as Osceola.
The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858. The Seminoles are a Native American nation which coalesced in northern Florida during the early 1700s, when the territory was still a Spanish colonial ...
There were four leading chiefs of the Seminole, a Native American tribe that formed in what was then Spanish Florida in the present-day United States.They were leaders between the time the tribe organized in the mid-18th century until Micanopy and many Seminole were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s following the Second Seminole War.
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". [13] 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.
His capture of Seminole leaders Osceola and Micanopy under a false flag of truce [3] provoked controversy in the United States and abroad. [4] Many newspapers called for an inquiry and his firing but the government supported its general, [5] and at the conclusion of the hostilities, Jesup returned to his official post. [1]
The Seminole had early success, but the elderly Micanopy became convinced of the futility of war as he realized the large number of American soldiers who could be sent against the Seminole. He surrendered in June 1837 and began negotiating to move his tribe to the Indian Territory, but Osceola kidnapped him.
The ship's namesake was Osceola (1804-1838), a noted Seminole chief and leader during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). Various changes in Navy priorities delayed the final completetion of the ship until November 1863. [ 2 ]
The Seminole leader Osceola led the vastly outnumbered resistance during the Second Seminole War. Drawing on a population of about 4,000 Seminoles and 800 allied Black Seminoles, he mustered at most 1,400 warriors (President Andrew Jackson estimated they had only 900).