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	Battle of Lake Okeechobee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Lake Okeechobee was one of the major battles of the Second Seminole War.
		It was fought between 800 troops of the 6th Infantry Regiment (under the command of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and 400 Seminoles.
		Taylor was promoted to the rank of brigadier general as a result of this battle, and his nickname of "Old Rough and Ready" came mostly due to this battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Okeechobee (168 words)

	Okeechobee County History - The County’s History is Tied to that of Lake Okeechobee
		On December 25, 1837, the Battle of Okeechobee pitted the soldiers of the U.S. Army against a group of Seminole Indians.
		The battle remains noteworthy for it is one of the few which the Indians claimed victory during the Seminole Indian Wars.
		North of the 730-square-mile lake some 150 years ago, the county north of the shore line was crowded with dense stands of water oak, cypress, pop ask, rubber and palmetto trees.
	geocities.com /TheTropics/Shores/4374/tied.htm (655 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Okeechobee, Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		OKEECHOBEE, LAKE [Okeechobee, Lake], c.700 sq mi (1,810 sq km), SE Fla., N of the Everglades; third largest freshwater lake and fourth largest lake wholly within the United States.
		A levee, built after the disastrous hurricane of 1926, rims the lake's shores, protecting the region from floodwaters and permitting use of the lake as a reservoir.
		The levees and canals have impeded the flow of water from the lake into the Everglades, which now suffers from saltwater intrusion, and have tended to contain pollutants from agricultural runoff in the lake.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/OkeechoL1k.asp (387 words)

	Seminole Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The largest battle of the war, an engagement on the Suwannee River, was primarily between U.S. and fl warriors.
		Jackson's overall campaign scattered but did not destroy the Black Seminole Maroon settlements of Florida, led to the confinement of the Seminole Indians within a constricted area of the interior, and secured American control of East Florida, still nominally claimed by Spain.
		A major battle fought between the Seminole and U.S. was the Battle of Lake Okeechobee in which Colonel Zachary Taylor won despite heavy U.S. casualties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Seminole_War (1253 words)

	War Continue over Old Battle Sites
		The battle was declared a great victory by the United States and Taylor, who had directed the fight from a safe position as far from the thwish of fired musketballs as possible, was declared a hero.
		All of that is why you don't read about the Battle of Okeechobee, or of the other little battle, the Battle of the Loxahatchee that took place a month later in the west end of what is now Jupiter.
		The Battle of the Loxahatchee - really two battles that took place on Jan. 15, 1838, and Jan. 24, 1838 - is of similar significance, because it precipitated the "final roundup" of the bulk of the Seminole tribe for mandatory removal to the Oklahoma reservations.
	www.jupiter.fl.us /HistoryWeb/War-Continue-over-Old-Battle-Sites.cfm (1411 words)

	Distant Drums
		Gary Cooper and his 40 veterans pushed a "small boat" to Lake Okeechobee to launch an attack on a fort on the other side of the Lake.
		Battle of Black Point was fought on the south rim of Paynes Prairie.
		1837 (December 24) -- the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/seminole.html (1657 words)

	Okeechobee County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Battle of Lake Okeechobee was fought on the north shore of Lake Okeechobee on Christmas Day, December 25, 1837.
		At one time during the battle, they saw Indians at their side and thought that they were the Delaware guides.
		After the battle, everybody left, and Lake Okeechobee would be forgotten for many years.
	www.tfn.net /SeminoleWar/Counties/c8okee.htm (1254 words)

	Indian Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Andrew Jackson was a major figure in the of the Seminole Indians and was the hero of Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
		The Battle of Bad marked the end of the Black Hawk after the Indians were crushed by Colonel Zachary Taylor 's forces.
		Battle of the Little Bighorn - (1876) Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Tatanka Iyotake Bull) and Tasunka witko (Crazy Horse) defeat 7th Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer.
	www.freeglossary.com /Indian_Wars (1567 words)

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		Lake Okeechobee is the second largest freshwater lake in the United States.
		Lake Okeechobee has a number of famous fishing areas including the Monkey Box, Moonshine Bay, Fisheating Creek, Hay Fields, and the Cow Pasture.
		One of the most important battles of the Second Seminole War took place in central Florida and is known as the "Battle of Lake Okeechobee".
	okeechobeebassfishing.com /pages/text2.html (275 words)

	Okeechobee, Lake. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A levee, built after the disastrous hurricane of 1926, rims the lake’s shores and protects the region from floodwaters.
		The drained lands bordering the lake produce vegetables and sugarcane.
		Okeechobee Battlefield National Historic Landmark, the site of a large battle (1837) during the Seminole Wars, is nearby.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ok/OkeechoLk.html (213 words)

	Fla. officials to buy Indian battle site - Boston.com
		The 145 acres where the Battle of Lake Okeechobee took place on Christmas Day will be turned into a state park, with living history events, such as re-enactments of the battle.
		The battle was part of a government effort to remove Indians from Florida, which was then just a U.S. territory.
		But the battle was declared a victory in Washington because the Indians were driven from the battlefield.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/04/04/fla_officials_to_buy_indian_battle_site (371 words)

	Okeechobee North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most of this segment of the trail is located on dikes along the east side of the Kissimmee River and Lake Okeechobee.
		The dike, together with the pumping station and navigational lock at Taylor Creek, are examples of the extensive flood control works that have been constructed to protect the surrounding lands and development.
		On Christmas 1837, the "Battle of Lake Okeechobee" was fought at Nubbins Slough.
	www.hikeflorida.org /html/o-north.html (425 words)

	Lake Okeechobee Ridge of Muck Removal Begins
		The berm had in effect cut off miles and miles of shallow water areas from the main lake, destroying wildlife habitat and fish spawning areas and at the same time allowing noxious weeds and plants to start the process of pushing out native grasses and plants.
		While the water level is low in the lake is the perfect time to try and recover a part of this huge and extremely unique part of our environment.
		Lake Okeechobee is the headwaters of the Everglades, which is scheduled for a 20 year re-vitalization program.
	www.bassnedge.com /latestnews/lake_okeechobee_ridge_of_muck_re.htm (592 words)

	ESPN.com - Bassmaster - 2003 Flordia Pro Tour: Lake Okeechobee — Schultz lands third
		OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — Bernie Schultz has been around his home state long enough to know that when it comes to tournament patterns, January cold fronts can mean boom or bust.
		As fate would have it, a cold front was forecast to sweep over the lake that day, sending temperatures plunging from the 70s into the 50s by weigh-in time.
		As the semifinalists eased out of the Kissimmee River into the windswept lake at dawn on Saturday, the effects of the cold front were felt in the form of wind chill readings in the 30s.
	sports.espn.go.com /outdoors/bassmaster/news/story?page=tourn_bt_0303_tour_FL_okeechobee_schultz (873 words)

	State: Conflict brews over historic site
		Battle has come, once again, to a sawgrass plain and hardwood hammock on Lake Okeechobee, where the Army fought hand-to-hand with determined Seminoles and Miccosukees on Christmas Day 1837.
		Marching toward the 640-acre Battle of Lake Okeechobee field this time is development.
		The battle of the seven-year Second Seminole War -- though far costlier to the Army than the Indians -- catapulted Col. Zachary Taylor to national prominence.
	www.sptimes.com /News/062700/news_pf/State/Conflict_brews_over_h.shtml (504 words)

	The Christmas Eve Freedom Fighters Of 1837 - Global Black News (African American News) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On This Christmas Eve marks the 165th anniversary of a battle for liberty in 1837 on the banks of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, that helped shape the United States of America.
		The battle of Lake Okeechobee is not a story you will find in school or college textbooks, and has slipped from the public consciousness.
		Lake Okeechobee was the US military's most decisive defeat in more than four decades of warfare in Florida.
	www.globalblacknews.com /KatzChristmas.html (1549 words)

	Indian Wars
		For example, although the Battle of Horseshoe Bend is often described as an "American victory" over the Creek Indians, the victors were a combined force of Cherokees, Creeks, and Tennessee militia led by Andrew Jackson.
		One of the major battles was the Battle of Lake Okeechobee in 1837.
		Battle of the Little Bighorn - (1876) Cheyenne under the leadership of Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull) and Tasunka witko (Crazy Horse) defeat the 7th Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/Indian_Wars.htm (1440 words)

	okeechobee battlefield
		Okeechobee, scene of the Florida clash that changed the course of the Second Seminole War, is among them.
		The battle also led to the forced emigration of thousands of Seminoles to Oklahoma, hastening the end of the war and the settlement of the southeastern U.S. Though few outward signs of the battle remain, many artifacts lie buried in the saw grass swamp and pineland forest of the battlefield.
		The Battle of Okeechobee was the war's bloodiest fight.
	www.okeeinfo.com /okeeinfo_chapters/history/history_okee_okeechobee_battlefield.htm (451 words)

	Zachary Taylor
		In June, 1812, war was declared against England, and this increased the widespread and not unfounded fears of Indian invasion in the valley of the Wabash.
		The battle, with varying fortune, continued throughout the day; at evening the enemy retired, and during the night retreated by the route on which he had advanced, having suffered much by the casualties of battle, but still more by desertions.
		In battle he was vigilantly active, though quiet in bearing; calm and considerate, though stern and inflexible ; but when the excitement of danger and strife had subsided, he had a father's tenderness and care for the wounded, and none more sincerely mourned for those who had bravely fallen in the line of their duty.
	www.famousamericans.net /zacharytaylor (5952 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - LAKE CHOCOLATE: Bass Fishing Suffers on Okeechobee
		For 100 years, this was one of the world's top bass lakes, where anglers could catch lots of largemouths with a real chance of landing a 10-pound wall-hanger.
		Lake Okeechobee was much bigger when it formed about 6,000 years ago.
		The lake was still largely unspoiled in 1926 when a hurricane came through, blew most of the water into the town of South Bay and killed more than 2,000 people.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/370475/lake_chocolate_bass_fishing_suffers_on_okeechobee/index.html?source=r_science (841 words)

	The American Indian Wars - American Wars - TimeLines of Liberty - www.PoetPatriot.com
		At the Wabash and Tippecanoe rivers the Battle of Tippecanoe is fought.
		Battling a series of draws Jackson stiffens the spines of the soldiers by executing several men who panicked during battle.
		The Battle of Lake Okeechobee was a major battle of the Second Seminole War taking place on December 25th.
	www.poetpatriot.com /tmwar-indian.htm (6443 words)

	Cultural Resources Management, South Florida Operations Office
		Pre-historic sites on Lake Okeechobee are predominantly situated on the edges of hammocks, creek, and river levees where artifacts have been recovered from middens and sand mounds.
		1837 - Battle of Lake Okeechobee was fought near Taylor Creek on the north shore of the lake.
		Major hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to overflow and claim 2400 lives.
	www.saj.usace.army.mil /sfoo/envstew/culres.htm (542 words)

	Sanibel, Lee pursue efforts to sue over Lake Okeechobee discharges \| BonitaNews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Water from Lake Okeechobee is flowing slower to the Caloosahatchee River now, but area leaders aren't stepping back from their threats to sue lake managers.
		The corps also improved and built canals to drain the lake for irrigation and made a direct and navigable connection between the Caloosahatchee River on the west coast and the St. Lucie River on the east.
		To keep the communities around the lake safe from flooding, the Army Corps releases water to the east and west rivers when the lake level is too high for comfort.
	www.bonitanews.com /news/2005/dec/20/sanibel_lee_pursue_efforts_sue_over_lake_okeechobe (1262 words)

	WSVN-TV - Environmentalists and state argue over Lake Okeechobee pollution
		MIAMI (AP) -- Polluted water being pumped into Lake Okeechobee is contaminating drinking water and poisoning the second-largest freshwater lake in the contiguous United States, environmentalist lawyers argued in court Thursday.
		The discharge is contaminated with chemicals and runoff that choke the life from the 730-square-mile lake.
		The plaintiffs claim that Lake Okeechobee and the district's canals are two separate bodies of water, and that under the act, the district must obtain permits to discharge polluted water into the lake.
	www1.wsvn.com /news/articles/local/MI18315 (629 words)

	Bush, Cabinet agree to buy Lake Okeechobee battlefield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		TALLAHASSEE - Debate over who won the Battle of Lake Okeechobee 169 years ago drags on, but victory finally was at hand Tuesday for the Seminole Tribe and others who have been fighting to preserve the historic site.
		"This was the largest, bloodiest battle of the Second Seminole Indian War," said state Rep. Joseph Machek, D-Delray Beach, who spoke in favor of the purchase.
		The battle was declared a victory in Washington, though, because the Indians were driven from the battlefield.
	www.tampabaylive.com /stories/2006/04/060404battlefield.shtml (554 words)

	American President
		Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, in 1836.
		Among other Indian battles, he engaged the Sacs, led by Chief Black Hawk, in Illinois in 1832 and the Seminoles in Florida in the late 1830s.
		Because the South was still too disunited in 1850 to form a viable secession movement, Taylor's unflinching support (had he lived) for the immediate statehood of the western territories might have changed the course of history.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/zacharytaylor/biography/email.html (5095 words)

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		fought on Christmas day in 1837 on the shore of Lake Okeechobee, was the largest battle of the Second Seminole War and the last stand of Native Americans in the Southeastern United States.
		ebate may continue over who won the Battle of Lake Okeechobee, but the war was won recently when the governor and Florida Cabinet agreed to purchase a portion of the battlefield, designated as one of 11 most endangered historic sites in the United States.
		"The Battle of Okeechobee was the largest battle of the Second Seminole Indian War, and purchasing this land is an important step in preserving Florida history,'' said CFO Tom Gallagher after the Cabinet vote.
	www.fldfs.com /pressoffice/newsletter/2006/041006/April_1006.htm (1043 words)

	State to Acquire Historic Okeechobee Battlefield - 04/04/06
		The site of an historic battle of the Second Seminole War, about 65 acres of the 211-acre project remain on the State’s acquisition list.
		The battle resulted in the loss of 26 U.S. forces and 112 wounded, while 14 indigenous people lost their lives.
		The Okeechobee Battle was part of the Second Seminole War (1835 — 1842), a product of President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act that forbade indigenous people from living east of the Mississippi River.
	www.dep.state.fl.us /secretary/news/2006/04/0404_01.htm (388 words)

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