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	Seminole Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three wars or conflicts in Florida between the Seminole Native American tribe and the United States.
		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 largest battle of the war, an engagement on the Suwannee river, was primarily between U.S. and fl warriors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seminole_Wars (1138 words)

	Seminole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Seminole nation came into existence in the 18th century and was composed of Indians from Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, most significantly the Creek Nation, as well as African Americans who escaped from slavery in Georgia (see Black Seminoles).
		The Seminole were a heterogenous group containing various groups and speaking Mikasuki (a modern dialect of Hitchiti) and Creek, two different languages of the Muskogean Native American languages family, a language group that also includes Choctaw and Chickasaw.
		Seminole leader Osceola led the vastly outnumbered resistance during the Second Seminole War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seminole_(tribe) (1455 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 engagements that took place between American troops and the Seminoles in Georgia, particularly during the First (1817-18) and Second (1835-42) Seminole Wars, were pivotal moments that crystallized some of the major issues underlying the battles.
		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 (1101 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)

	Seminole Wars
		The Seminole occupied lands in northern Florida that were coveted by American settlers in the neighboring state of Georgia, although Florida at the beginning of the 19th century belonged to Spain.
		While the U.S. was fighting the War of 1812 with Britain, a series of incidents led to an increase in hostility between the U.S. and the Seminole.
		In 1823 the Seminole officially ceded most of their former tribal lands to the United States; in 1832, by the treaty of Paynes Landing, the tribe was bound to move to territory west of the Mississippi River within three years.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/seminolewars.htm (352 words)

	The Seminole Wars
		On the one hand, the Seminole Wars were a continuation of American policy to contain Native American populations east of the Mississippi and remove them to reservations west of the Mississippi, a policy that culminated in the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
		The war was preceded by years of border disputes along the Florida-Georgia border which climaxed in the destruction of Fort Negro on the Apalachicola River.
		There have been allegations that the Negro Seminole Abraham was bribed to modify the translation of the terms to the chiefs and that the agent coerced the chiefs into signing the treaty or that their marks were forged by sub-chiefs.
	faculty.mccfl.edu /JonesJ/flbib/SEMINOLE.html (2443 words)

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		The prosperity of the Seminoles disturbed former slaveholders in the U.S. In 1812, Seminoles learned that a group of Georgians who called themselves "Patriots" were plotting to attack Seminole settlements.
		Though they got the Seminoles to agree to move onto a reservation in the state's center, their greed was insatiable.
		The land allotted to the Seminoles was dominated by the Creek Nation, whose members resented the Seminoles' previous abandonment.
	www.abfla.com /1tocf/seminole/semhistory.html (1877 words)

	University Press of Florida: The Seminole Wars
		The Seminole Wars were the longest, bloodiest, and most costly of all the Indian wars fought by this nation.
		The first war, led by General Andrew Jackson, was part of an attempt to wrest Florida from Spain and had international repercussions that led to a lengthy congressional investigation.
		The third war, fought on the eve of the Civil War, was an attempt to remove the final remnants of the Seminole Nation from their homes in the Everglades.
	www.upf.com /book.asp?id=MISSAS04 (476 words)

	ClarkM
		The Seminoles were seen as one of the Five Civilized Tribes in the southeast, but the Seminoles willingness to help escaped slaves led to a conflict with the United States.
		The Seminole Wars were fought in dangerous jungle like settings and the Seminole Indians were a determined people and used guerrilla tactics to bring the better-equipped and trained American army to a standstill.
		The Seminoles were the last of the Indians in the southeast to move west to the Indian Territory.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~mgagnon/students/4070/04SP4070-ClarkM.htm (2951 words)

	Seminole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		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)

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		The Seminole Wars of the Nineteenth Century were a series of conflicts that involved the American, Native American, and African populations of the territory that became Florida.
		Seminole leader Billy Bowlegs proved a formidable opponent to Jackson whose fame was only overshadowed by that of the great Osceola who led the Seminole during the Second War (1835-1842).
		The Third Seminole War (1855-1858) involved the few remaining Seminole who were fought to protect the last lands under their control: the wetlands of Southern Florida.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7023/seminolepathfinder.html (3327 words)

	Seminole History @ Florida OCHP
		Seminole history begins with bands of Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama who migrated to Florida in the 1700s.
		At war with the U.S. Run-ins with white settlers were becoming more regular by the turn of the century.
		After defeating the U.S. in early battles of the Second Seminole War, Seminole leader Osceola was captured by the United States in Oct. 20, 1837, when U.S. troops said they wanted a truce to talk peace.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /facts/history/seminole (682 words)

	seminole wars, wild cat, osceola, andrew jackson, seminoles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		For generations, the Seminoles of Florida had given haven to escaped slaves from the American south, and were by the early nineteenth century an interracial tribe.
		The United States made war on the Seminoles - starting with attacks shortly after the War of 1812 by Andrew Jackson and finishing up with attacks by William Tecumseh Sherman in the 1840s - in order to recover fugitive slaves and their descendants and force the Seminoles onto the trail of tears.
		They faced starvation on the way, and then again at their destination, where they were assigned the same territory as the Creeks, a tribe with which they had been at war for decades, in part because of the Creeks' cooperation with the government of the United States and the slave trade.
	www.crispinsartwell.com /seminole.htm (498 words)

	SEMINOLE WARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The tribe resisted, which led to the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) under the leadership of Osceola, Wildcat and Halek.
		The Third Seminole War, which followed, lasted from 1855 to 1958 (this is not a typographical error).
		In 1958 the Federal Government agreed to allow the Seminoles and Miccosukees to live in peace on the land that was not given up, and also agreed that the State of Florida would no longer have jurisdiction over remaining Indian land.
	www.geocities.com /marcyellen5/flnclink.html (249 words)

	Seminole Wars -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Led by Osceola, the Seminole warriors hid in the Everglades and used guerrilla tactics to defend their land; about 2,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in the prolonged fighting.
		The Third Seminole War (1855–58) was the final conflict with the Seminoles remaining in Florida.
		He was born on June 26, 1819, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. He graduated from the military academy at West Point in 1842 and was an artillery officer in the Mexican War from 1846 to 1848 and in the Seminole War in Florida from 1856 to 1858.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9378216 (1048 words)

	The Seminole Wars
		The First Seminole War convinced the Spanish that they had no chance of holding Florida, so in 1821 Spain sold the land to the United States.
		The Seminole declared that they would not move West and in 1835, defiant warriors made two attacks on U.S. troops starting the Second Seminole War.
		The war was fought Guerrilla style in the swamps of Florida leading to many Seminole victories.
	members.tripod.com /%7Eshamm/wars.htm (554 words)

	The Seminole Wars @ Florida OCHP
		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 (626 words)

	Stephanie Dispatch for KIDS!
		The last tribe, though, the Seminoles, could not imagine leaving their own sacred land and decided to fight back.
		The Seminoles said no and fought against the white men who had taken their land.
		While the Indians were used to the swamp, about 1,500 soldiers died in the Second Seminole War.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester1/110400kids/110400stephsemkids.html (519 words)

	FLORIDA OF THE SEMINOLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		While these Seminoles were not direct participants in the Creek Wars of 1813, their ability to adapt to such European ways as wheat farming and cattle raising aroused the anger of Georgia farmers who accused them of stealing their cattle.
		Halfway to their destination they were ambushed by a large band of Seminoles and their slave allies, at a site where many of the Indians hide in the unlikely spot of a lake bank.
		The major weakness of the Seminoles was their women and children so the U. Government adopted a policy of hunting down, uprooting, and capturing the Indian villages.
	www.floridahistory.org /floridians/seminol.htm (1897 words)

	Seminole Wars Historic Foundation-Projects
		he purpose of the Seminole Wars Historic Foundation, Inc. is to preserve significant sites involved in the Seminole Wars, to establish educational programs about their importance in our heritage, and to publish pertinent material relating to the wars.
		Camp Izard was a major battleground of the Second Seminole War, now formally designated the Camp Izard Battlefield Preserve.
		By studying the underlying causes of the Seminole Wars I have gained a greater understanding of the forces that drive American history.
	www.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/pkyonge/swhf (769 words)

	The Seminole Wars
		These Indians, known as the Seminole, and the runaway slaves had been trading weapons with the British throughout the early 1800s and supported Britain during the War of 1812.
		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 few Seminole that remained, after most were sent to the reservations in the west, periodically fought the Americans again from 1855 to 1858.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /florida/lessons/sem_war/sem_war1.htm (839 words)

	Seminole War
		Seminole War, in U.S. history, armed conflict between the U.S. government and the Seminoles.
		However, opposition to the treaty soon appeared among the Seminoles; under the leadership of the young chief, Osceola, the Seminoles organized small raiding parties that attacked the American troops.
		The Seminole's crops were systematically burned and their villages destroyed.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0844387.html (359 words)

	The Seminole Indians
		Picture of a Seminole woman in traditional dress and jewelry,1925.
		The word Seminole was derived from a Spanish word, "cimmaron", which means "wild ones", referring to the fact that they lived in wild, unoccupied areas.
		These Seminole Negroes played a significant part throughout the ensuing Seminole Wars and the removal to Indian Territory.
	www.tampabayhistorycenter.org /seminoles.htm (235 words)

	Everglades Timeline, Part 3: Territorial Florida and the Seminole Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		General Andrew Jackson and his army were sent to northern Florida to fight the Seminoles and seize the land from Spain.
		The ensuing conflict, known later as the First Seminole Indian War, forced the Indians to move further south to elude capture or death.
		The Third Seminole War began when a white survey party raided the plantation of Seminole Chief Billy Bowlegs.
	www.fiu.edu /~glades/reclaim/timeline/timeline3.htm (838 words)

	Encyclopedia: Seminole Wars
		PD engraving of Osceola from LOC This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
		Osceola Osceola (1804-January 20, 1838) was a leader of the Seminole Indians in Florida.
		The Seminole are a Native American Indian people of Florida.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Seminole-Wars (521 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Seminole Wars (1812-1858) - June 24th, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It stipulated that the Seminoles would be reimbursed for cattle, and property for a period of 20 years, all slaves that were taken, up to that time, were to be turned into the proper authorities so they may be return to their owners, and that the clans agreed to be relocated.
		The Seminoles of Florida, a tribe said to have been derived from Creek refugees, resisted the efforts made to remove them, and started a war which proved to be the longest and most costly Indian war to which the United States had ever been subjected.
		The Florida War may be said to have commenced with the massacre of Major Dade's command, on the 28th of December, 1835, and closed, by official proclamation, on the 14th of August, 1842.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/934497/posts (7970 words)

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