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  2. Battle of the Caloosahatchee - Wikipedia

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    When Harney returned to the camp, he was very exhausted from his hunting trip, and he immediately went to bed without posting any guards either. The Seminole attack began at dawn on July 23, 1839. The Seminole raiders divided into two groups, one of which attacked the trading post and the other attacked the U.S. Army camp.

  3. Seminole Tribe of Florida - Wikipedia

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    In 1956, Betty Mae Tiger Jumper (later to be elected as chairwoman of the tribe) and Alice Osceola established the first tribal newspaper, the Seminole News, which sold for 10 cents a copy. It was dropped after a while, but in 1972 the Alligator Times was established. [53] In 1982, it was renamed the Seminole Tribune, as it continues today ...

  4. Murder of Mike Williams - Wikipedia

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    Jerry Michael "Mike" Williams (October 16, 1969 [2] – December 16, 2000) was an American murder victim. Williams was initially presumed to have drowned on a 2000 hunting trip to Lake Seminole, a large reservoir straddling the Georgia-Florida state line; his mother always suspected he had been the victim of foul play, possibly at another location. [3]

  5. Seminole - Wikipedia

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    In a process of ethnogenesis, they constructed a new culture which they called "Seminole", a derivative of the Mvskoke' (a Creek language) word simano-li, an adaptation of the Spanish cimarrón which means "wild" (in their case, "wild men"), or "runaway" [men]. [16] The Seminole were a heterogeneous tribe made up of mostly Lower Creeks from ...

  6. Battles of the Loxahatchee - Wikipedia

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    The Seminoles in the Loxahatchee area in January 1838 were the same group of Seminoles who had just fought at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee a month earlier. Seminole historian Billy Bowlegs III stated that Chief Abiaka led this Seminole group after the battle to the coast of Palm Beach County in order to loot shipwrecks for valuable supplies of gunpowder, clothing, and food.

  7. Gad Humphreys - Wikipedia

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    The Seminoles were wary of the large White party and fled, and the Whites fired at them. One Seminole suffered a broken arm. Since the hunting party had been authorized by Humphreys, the Seminoles were allowed to return to the reservation. Their report of the incident, however, led the Seminoles to prepare for war.

  8. Battle of Pine Island Ridge - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Pine Island Ridge was a battle during the Second Seminole War fought on March 22, 1838, at the site of Pine Island Ridge in South Florida. [2] U.S. troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel James Bankhead and Major William Lauderdale attacked a large Seminole village on top of Pine Island Ridge, an island in the Everglades at the time.

  9. Alligator wrestling - Wikipedia

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    Alligator wrestling at Gatorland. A common symbol of Florida in popular culture is the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis).The St. Augustine Alligator Farm was one of Florida's earliest themed tourist attractions that opened for business in 1893.