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    The Second Seminole War, also known as the Florida War, was a conflict from 1835 to 1842 in Florida between the United States and groups of people collectively...
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    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...
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    The Seminole are a Native American people who developed in Florida in the 18th century. Today, they live in Oklahoma and Florida, and comprise three federally...
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    The Black Seminoles, or Afro-Seminoles, are an ethnic group of mixed Native American and African origin associated with the Seminole people in Florida...
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    Battle of the Caloosahatchee (category Battles of the Seminole Wars)
    Massacre, was a battle that took place during the Second Seminole War on July 23, 1839. A large group of Seminole raiders attacked a trading post and U.S. Army...
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    Seminole Wars (1817–1858), a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminole people. During this period, many Seminoles...
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    the First Seminole War resulted in the Yuchi moving to eastern Florida. They fought alongside the Seminole during the Second Seminole War under their...
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    000 Seminoles who were forcibly removed from Florida to Indian Territory, along with 800 Black Seminoles, after the Second Seminole War. The Seminole Nation...
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    area was untouched during the Second Seminole War, allowing black Seminole families to use the area as a refuge from the war. The United States Army, however...
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    winding down and most Seminoles had left Florida for Oklahoma. The US Army officially recorded 1,466 deaths in the Second Seminole War, mostly from disease...
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    1781 – c. 1866) was a Seminole-Miccosukee chief, warrior, and shaman who fought against the United States during the Seminole Wars. He was born among the...
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  • Camp Darley - Second Seminole War fortification. Camp Munroe - Second Seminole War fortification. p. 170. Camp Dunlawton - Second Seminole War fortification...
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    wildcat") (c. 1807/1810–1857) was a leading Seminole chieftain during the later stages of the Second Seminole War and the nephew of Micanopy. Wild Cat's (Coacoochee)...
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    Florida has counties named for participants on both sides of the Second Seminole War: Miami-Dade County is partially named for Francis L. Dade, a major...
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    Fort Christmas (category Second Seminole War fortifications)
    Christmas was built in present-day Christmas, Florida during the Second Seminole War. Construction began on December 25, 1837, with the arrival of 2,000...
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    William Lauderdale (category United States Army personnel of the Seminole Wars)
    planter from a prominent Virginia family. He served in both the War of 1812 and the Seminole Wars. The city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida is named after him....
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  • holes." The second verse discusses the draining of the Florida Everglades due to flooding, and Seminole war chief Osceola, who led the Seminole who lived...
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    Dade battle (category Battles of the Seminole Wars)
    the following day. The battle sparked the Second Seminole War, which ended in 1842. By that time, most Seminoles had surrendered and been transported out...
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  • The Seminole Tribe of Florida is a federally recognized Seminole tribe based in the U.S. state of Florida. Together with the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma...
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  • Levi Twiggs (category American military personnel of the Seminole Wars)
    the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812, the Second Seminole War, and the Mexican–American War. He was killed by enemy fire while leading...
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    to Worth at Warm Springs. On August 14, 1842, Worth declared the Second Seminole War over. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, the Mobley and Beville families...
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  • Spanish Indians (category Native Americans of the Seminole Wars)
    fishing ranchos along the coast of southwest Florida. During the Second Seminole War, a band led by Chakaika that lived in the Shark River Slough in the...
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  • or Spanish Indians, did not move to the reservation. During the Second Seminole War (1835–1842), the United States Army rounded up all of the residents...
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    Chipco (category Native Americans of the Seminole Wars)
    (1805-1881) was a 19th-century Seminole Indian chief and warrior. He was one of the most prominent Seminole chiefs during the Seminole Wars, and by the end of the...
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    Bennet Riley, and the Second and Eighth Infantry divisions transferred to Fort McClure to search the Lake Panasoffkee area for Seminole warriors. Three days...
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  • links, conflicts with the Seminole tribe, and repeated outbreaks of yellow fever made development difficult. The Civil War and Reconstruction caused the...
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  • both groups during the First and Second Seminole Wars. The present-day speakers of Afro-Seminole Creole live in Seminole County, Oklahoma and Brackettville...
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    John Horse (category Native Americans of the Seminole Wars)
    John, was a man of mixed African and Seminole ancestry who fought alongside the Seminoles in the Second Seminole War in Florida. He rose to prominence in...
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    rifles were ordered by the U.S. Army for use against Seminole warriors in the Second Seminole War. The first model ring lever rifle features a 32-inch...
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    Billy Bowlegs (category Native Americans of the Seminole Wars)
    of the Seminoles in Florida during the Second Seminole War and was the remaining Seminole's most prominent chief during the Third Seminole War, when he...
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