The Battle of Withlacoochee, otherwise known as the Battle of Ouithlacoochie[citation needed], took place during the Second Seminole War on December 31...
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The Withlacoochee River or Crooked River is a river in central Florida, in the United States. It originates in the Green Swamp, east of Polk City, flowing...
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Horace Brooks (category People of Massachusetts in the American Civil War)
War. As part of a small force under the command of Brig. Gen. Duncan Lamont Clinch, Brooks participated in the Battle of Withlacoochee against the Seminole...
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Second Seminole War (category History of Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
Seminole stronghold called the Cove of the Withlacoochee, an area of many lakes on the southwest side of the Withlacoochee River. When they reached the river...
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The Grove Plantation (category National Register of Historic Places in Leon County, Florida)
Brigadier General of the Florida Militia prior to his governorship, Call led the state militia into the ill-fated Battle of Withlacoochee, which took place...
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Leigh Read (category American military personnel of the Seminole Wars)
the Seminole. Read was wounded at the Battle of Withlacoochee. After recovering, he was elected as commander of a militia battalion that participated...
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Richard K. Call (category United States Army personnel of the War of 1812)
he led forces in fighting the Seminole Indians, most notably at the Battle of Wahoo Swamp in the Seminole War. President Martin Van Buren replaced him...
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Indian Removal Act. Settlements were established on patches of dry land along the Withlacoochee River, and the area became a base from which small raiding...
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Florida National Cemetery (category Protected areas of Sumter County, Florida)
in 1988. It is now one of the busiest cemeteries in the United States. Florida National Cemetery is located in the Withlacoochee State Forest, approximately...
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undercover agent or spy Spook Bridge, an abandoned bridge over the Withlacoochee River, Georgia, United States Spook Cave, a flooded cave in Iowa, US...
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Lowndes County, Georgia (redirect from History of Lowndes County, Georgia)
people of color, for a total population of 2,455. The introduction of steam-powered ships on the Withlacoochee and Little rivers led to a shift in the...
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Hálpata Tastanaki Preserve (category Protected areas of Marion County, Florida)
picnicking. A variety of plant communities occur on the property, including floodplain swamp and oak scrub along the Withlacoochee River and longleaf pine...
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American Indian Wars (redirect from Indian battles)
Seminole stronghold called the Cove of the Withlacoochee, an area of many lakes on the southwest side of the Withlacoochee River. When they reached the river...
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Francis L. Dade (category United States Army personnel of the Seminole Wars)
River and Withlacoochee River in order to delay the progress of the column, and ambushed the soldiers on December 28, 1835, killing Dade and most of his men...
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thousands of name changes, merges, splits and re-creations since the establishment of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. Council shoulder patch History of the...
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Third Seminole War Fort Cummings - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Dade (Withlacoochee River), Second Seminole War Fort Dade (Egmont Key), Spanish–American...
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David Moniac (category United States Army personnel of the Seminole Wars)
on the Withlacoochee River. They were to find and destroy the stronghold of Seminole Chief Jumper. In what would become known as the Battle of Wahoo Swamp...
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destruction of the Withlacoochee River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.1 square miles (11 km2), of which 4.0 square...
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Florida (redirect from List of regions of Florida)
Confederacy lost control of the Mississippi River, thereby losing access to Texas beef. The largest engagements in the state were the Battle of Olustee, on February...
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Seminole Wars (redirect from Battle of Big Cypress)
Journal of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Late Major-General in the United States Army. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch. Kimball, Chris. 2003. The Withlacoochee. – Archived...
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Daily Grand March of the royals at a Renaissance fair in the US The Medieval Fair at Horb am Neckar (South Germany) 2019 This is a list of Renaissance faires...
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middle of the 18th century, probably consisted of Calusa and refugees from other tribes to the north. Luca – Town near the Withlacoochee River north of Guazoco...
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parks offer facilities for birding or horseback riding; there are several battle reenactments; and freshwater springs and beaches are Florida's gems. According...
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Big Bend (Florida) (category Regions of Florida)
rivers, such as the Suwannee, Crystal, Santa Fe, Withlacoochee, Alapaha, and St. Marks Rivers. A number of these rivers have subterranean stretches, vanishing...
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (category Spanish explorers of North America)
attempting to cross a swift-flowing river (probably the Withlacoochee), they were confronted by a group of 200 Indians. The encounter quickly turned into a fight...
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The following is a list of episodes of the American reality television series, Ax Men, seen on the History channel. The show ended production in 2016 after...
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Wahoo, Florida (redirect from History of Wahoo, Florida)
in an ambush while Clinch's men were crossing the Withlacoochee River. The Battle of the Withlacoochee River ended when Clinch and his men dismounted from...
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Narváez expedition (category Battles involving Native Americans)
near-starvation for two weeks before coming upon a village north of the Withlacoochee River. They enslaved the natives and for three days helped themselves...
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Doc Holliday (category American people of English descent)
daughter of Doc's uncle Thomas S. McKey, said her father told her: "They rode in on the Negroes in swimming in a part of the Withlacoochee River that...
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legal authority to do so. The man was later found dead in the Withlacoochee River, west of Valdosta, bound and with a gunshot wound to the head. "Buried...
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