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	Seminole Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Seminole War was from 1817 to 1818; the Second Seminole War from 1835 to 1842; and the Third Seminole War from 1855 to 1858.
		The Second Seminole War was fought by the Seminole as guerrillas and Spanish soldiers.
		The Third Seminole War began in late 1855 with an attack on a group of U.S. soldiers by Seminoles led by Billy Bowlegs, in response to the continued white expansion into Seminole land in southern Florida.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seminole_Wars (1269 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Seminole Wars
		The three Seminole Wars that commanded the attention and manpower of the U.S. Army and Navy during the antebellum period intensified the violence and chaos that had been characteristic of the Georgia-Florida frontier since the early colonial period.
		The years between the cessation of the First Seminole War and the commencement of the Second Seminole War were not peaceful along the Georgia-Florida frontier.
		The Georgia battles during the Second Seminole War revealed that the southern parts of the state were critical spaces in the antebellum period.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-842 (1109 words)

	Seminole Nation, Indian Territory History & Genealogy
		The Seminole are classified among the Muskogean peoples, a group of remnant tribes having joined in forming this division in Florida during the border wars between the Spanish and the English colonists on the Florida-Carolina frontier in the 18th century.
		The name Seminole, first applied to the tribe about 1778, is from the Creek word 'semino le', meaning 'runaway,' meaning emigrants who left the main body and settled elsewhere.
		In 1817, with the accusation that the Seminole were harboring runaway slaves, Andrew Jackson commanded nearly 3,000 troops to attack and burn the town of Mikasuki, starting the first Seminole War.
	www.seminolenation-indianterritory.org (831 words)

	The Seminole Wars
		In 1817, the United States government declared war on the tribes in Florida and the First Seminole War began.
		The war was fought Guerrilla style in the swamps of Florida leading to many Seminole victories.
		The exit of the Seminoles marked the end of the Seminole Wars.
	members.tripod.com /~shamm/wars.htm (554 words)

	SEMINOLE INDIANS
		At first in the south the Europeans were not interested in areas where there were not deep water seaports and where the “fevers” were prominent.
		The first official written use of the word “Seminole” that I find was by British Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Southern District, John Stuart, in 1771.
		The Indians retaliated attacking a boatload of 40 soldiers and the war was on.
	www.keyshistory.org /seminolespage1.html (1572 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Seminole resistance to white encroachment led to a series of conflicts with the United States Army including the First Seminole War (1816-18), the Second Seminole War (1835-42), and the final skirmishes of 1857-58.
		The Seminoles remained unsatisfied with their new home, however, and in 1858 they learned that an independent Seminole Nation had been created in a treaty in 1856 between the Creeks and the United States.
		The Seminole delegates to Mexico discovered, upon their arrival, that their old Mexican grant was inhabited by descendants of the Seminole maroons left behind in 1861.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/bms19.html (1604 words)

	Seminole War Chiefs
		Chief Micanopy was the chief of the Seminole Nation during the 2nd Seminole War, 1835-1842.
		After the seven bloody years of the 2nd Seminole War, Chief Micanopy and the remnants of his Alachua band were captured and sent to the Oklahoma Territory where he died in January of 1849.
		YAHA-HAJO (Mad Wolf) was the second principal war chief of the Seminole nation, and had been among the seven chiefs selected to inspect the western lands reserved for the Seminoles.
	www.afn.org /~micanopy/html/seminole_war_chiefs.html (424 words)

	Seminole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Seminole Indians are a North American Indian Tribe that speak the Muskogee language.
		The Second Seminole War was one of the most costly of the United States-Indian wars.
		Seminole environmental projects are now designed to protect and preserve the land and water systems.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/seminole.html (324 words)

	The Seminole Wars
		First Seminole War Andrew Jackson's army destroys crops, steals livestock, and destroys Negro forts in the Apalachicola and Suwannee River regions.
		That same day, Major Francis Dade and his troops are ambushed by 300 Seminole warriors near Fort King (Ocala), starting the Second Seminole War – beginning of mass removal of the Seminoles to the Indian Territory.
		End of the Second Seminole War – By the end of the war, 4,420 Seminoles had surrendered and been deported to the west.
	www.tampabayhistorycenter.org /semwars.htm (240 words)

	The History of the Seminoles in Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The first Europeans to intrude on the traditional lifestyle of the Seminole were the Spanish, whose first encounters brought small pox and other diseases that served to reduce the number of native peoples by perhaps 80 percent (Seminole).
		The Second Seminole War, which occurred between 1835 and 1842, was significant also because of the important role runaway slaves played, having been offered refuge by the Seminole and fighting for freedom alongside them and with equal desperation (Seminole).
		The last struggles of the Seminole Wars were led by Billy Bowlegs in the Third Seminole War (1856-58) in direct response to American military provocation, but US withdrew at last, leaving a scant few hundred determined Seminole to an arduous life in the untamed Florida swamps, and having removed some 3,000 people.
	www.lclark.edu /~bekar/Seminolehistory.htm (1266 words)

	2ndSemWar
		The Seminoles allowed them to live alongside as long as the Africans contributed portions of their crops and livestock to the Seminole community to which they were joined.
		As the United States went to war with the British in the War of 1812, the Seminoles and escaped slaves were armed by the Brits, trained as guerilla fighters, and encouraged to make raids on the farms of American settlers in Florida and some outside of Florida.
		Seminole braves had shadowed the detachment for days, and had noticed the troops were rather unready for war and were marching in loose formation.
	www.members.tripod.com /rebelyell71/2ndsemwar.htm (7130 words)

	Facts - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		These old conflicts, combined with the safe-haven Seminoles provided fl slaves, caused the U.S. army to attack the tribe in the First Seminole War (1817-1818), which took place in Florida and southern Georgia.
		The campaigns of the Second Seminole War were an outstanding demonstration of guerrilla warfare by the Seminole.
		The Second Seminole War (1835-1842), usually referred to as the Seminole War proper, was the fiercest war waged by the U.S. government against American Indians.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /facts/history/seminole/wars.cfm (634 words)

	Sectional Aspect of the Seminole
		The Seminoles were incorporated with the Spanish in Florida; they enjoyed the same privileges as the rest of the population, were entitled to land where it was unoccupied, and were protected by the Spanish crown.
		As early as the Revolutionary War era, the Council of Safety of the Colony of Georgia sent to Congress a communication asking that a large force of continental troops be sent to aid in that capacity.
		The Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, was distinguished for his ideas on slavery, and since this conflict had been entered upon for the support of that institution, it may be supposed that he exerted his utmost energies for its vigorous prosecution.
	www.georgiagenealogy.org /history/seminole_war.htm (5411 words)

	Seminole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Seminole are a tribe of North American Indians who left their traditional homeland in Georgia after separating from the creek during the 18th century to live independently in Florida.
		The Seminole Wars were fought between the United States and the Seminole Indians of Florida.
		The first war (1817-18) resulted from a border clash between Georgia frontier dwellers and the Seminoles in Spanish Florida, who were harboring runaway slaves and outlaws.
	www.thehawksnest.com /html/seminole.html (563 words)

	CHAPTER 7. SECOND SPANISH PERIOD, 1783-1821
		King Payne, the Seminole Indian chief, had told Captain John Forrester that Bowles had sent "a small party of Indians with an intention of plundering the inhabitants of the Province." A few days later, a man named Atkinson informed the governor that there was danger that privateers would try to plunder the seacoast.
		The Seminoles did not want the Americans to move into Florida, but the fls, with their fear of future enslavement, especially fought hard against the Americans.
		Construction on the first stone fort was begun by the Spanish in 1739.
	www.vernonjohns.org /nonracists/jxspfla2.html (2937 words)

	Florida State Seminoles: A Tradition of Tribute :: FAQs
		This conflict, known as the Creek War of 1813-14, was disastrous to the cultural relatives of the Seminoles.
		This one, the Second Seminole War (1835-42), would be the longest, most costly, and the last of the U.S.'s Wars of Indian Removal fought east of the Mississippi River.
		Because the Seminole name is such an integral part of Florida's history, the name serves as the moniker for a geographical entity, Seminole County; a city, Seminole in Pinellas County; and a college, Seminole Community College.
	www.fsu.edu /~univrel/seminoles/pages/faq.html (2851 words)

	SEMINOLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		All of the Seminole leaders in Florida were present, some having traveled for days and hundreds of miles with their families and escorts for this all important meeting.
		The treaty required that the Seminoles sell all properties to the U.S. and remove to the west as all of the south and southeastern tribes had previously done, and that Blacks be returned to their "rightful" owners.
		When the touring Seminoles returned to Florida they were faced with the infomation that Chief Charlie Emathla, a Seminole friendly to the whites, had agreed to removal and had already sold his properties and ordered his followers to prepare for relocation.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/seminoles.htm (2008 words)

	Horseshoe Bend - Creek War
		The Creek War of 1813-1814 began as a civil war within the Creek Nation.
		Although seriously wounded, Menawa survived the battle and subsequently served in the First Seminole War as an ally of the United States.
		During the Creek War of 1813-1814, Hawkins organized the friendly Creeks under Major William McIntosh to aid the Georgia and Tennessee militias during their forays against the Red Sticks.
	www.nps.gov /hobe/home/creekwar.htm (815 words)

	The First Seminole War (1817-1818)
		General Jackson's visit to Washington on this occasion was in obedience to an order, couched in the language of an invitation, received from the Secretary of War soon after his return from New Orleans; the object of his visit being to arrange the posts and stations of the army.
		The feeling was general at the time that the disasters of the War of 1812 were chiefly due to the defenseless and unprepared condition of the country, and that it was the first duty of the Government, on the return of peace, to see to it that the assailable points were fortified.
		The Seminoles were drawn at last into a collision with the United States by a chain of circumstances with which they had little to do, and the responsibility of which belongs not to them.
	www.multied.com /documents/FSeminole.html (2127 words)

	Seminole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Seminole Indians were a fierce, proud tribe of Florida that did not let three wars with the United States Army or the harsh Everglade swamps defeat them.
		The first Seminoles came to Florida because the Spanish were in control of Florida and had no interest in returning slaves to the British.
		During the first Seminole war the Spanish gave Florida to the United States.
	www.athens.k12.wi.us /ushistory/Seminole.htm (253 words)

	Talk:Seminole Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to 8/30/2005, this article stated that 4,000 Seminole warriors fought against as many as 200,000 U.S. soldiers during the Second Seminole War (SSW).
		A review of John Mahon's definitive history The Second Seminole War, or other sound sources, shows that the total population of the Seminole Indians in Florida was estimated at 4,000—this was the population of men, women, and children, not the total of the warriors.
		Again referring to Mahon, the definitive source, he states on page 325 of The Second Seminole War that 10,169 U.S. Army regulars served in Florida and another 30,000 or so men served in the state-raised militia units, for a total estimate of 40,000 who served.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Seminole_Wars (651 words)

	Distant Drums
		The Secretary of War appointed, in the spring of 1841, an officer who had been on the scene in Florida since 1838.
		He was General William J. Worth, the son of Quaker parents, who had served with distinction in the War of 1812, acted as Commandant at West Point and won his general's commission in an earlier victorious skirmish against the Seminoles.
		Slowly the Seminoles began to drift in from the swamps, hungry and homeless, proud but driven to the outer limits of their endurance and bravery.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/seminole.html (1657 words)

	First Seminole War
		Floridian territory was nominally under Spanish sway; the Spanish permitted the Seminole to settle there in order to create a buffer zone between their sphere of influence and that of the British.
		While the United States was fighting the War of 1812 with Britain, a series of violent incidents aggravated hostility between the U.S. and the Seminole.
		The First Seminole War erupted over forays staged by U.S. authorities to recapture runaway fl slaves living among Seminole bands, who stiffly resisted.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1129.html (316 words)

	The Seminole Wars
		The Seminole did not want to leave their Florida home, but agreed to send some chiefs to look at the new land where they would be relocated.
		The first battle of the war was known as the Dade Massacre.
		The few Seminole that remained, after most were sent to the reservations in the west, periodically fought the Americans again from 1855 to 1858.
	fcit.usf.edu /florida/lessons/sem_war/sem_war1.htm (839 words)

	First Seminole War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The First Seminole War (1817-1818) began when settlers attacked Florida Indians and the Indians retaliated by raiding isolated Georgia homesteads.
		The First Seminole War (1817-1818) began in earnest this year with a U.S. invasion of East Florida to punish hostile Seminole Indians, whose territory had become a refuge for runaway slaves.
		BARTLETT BASHAM (whose father OBEDIAH BASHAM served in the REV WAR) (and whose son BENAJAH ANDERSON BASHAM fought in the Civil War) was born 1783 in Bedford Co., VA and died 1850 in Warren Co., KY.
	www.tcarden.com /tree/ensor/SeminoleWar.html (355 words)

	Union County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of the prominent settlers was Captain William Butler, a former member of the Georgia Legislature who fought in the Creek War, and commanded the local company of volunteer militia.
		The Driggers family had served in the Creek War under the Georgia militia and later became one of the first families to settle Lake Butler.
		A Second Seminole War outpost was established along the Santa Fe River, and there was a Spanish mission two miles from that site.
	www.tfn.net /SeminoleWar/Counties/c3unio.htm (711 words)

	American Experience \| War Letters \| Timeline
		In the first U.S. armed intervention in Asia, the U.S. retaliates against an attack on a U.S. merchant vessel, killing 100 Sumatrans and burning the town of Quallah Battoo.
		American troops clash with Native Americans led by Osceola; the Seminole people are reduced to 350 in number by 1842.
		The U.S. declares war against Mexico; the war ends with Mexico ceding all rights to Texas, and the U.S. purchase of New Mexico and California.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/warletters/timeline (329 words)

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