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The mill manufactured the first satinets, used the first power looms for woolens in America, and made US military uniforms for over 140 years. John Willard Capron (February 14, 1797, at Uxbridge , Worcester County, Massachusetts – December 25, 1878, at Uxbridge) was an American military officer in the infantry, state legislator, and textile ...
Spanish Florida was established in the 1500s, when Spain laid claim to land explored by several expeditions across the future southeastern United States.The introduction of diseases to the indigenous peoples of Florida caused a steep decline in the original native population over the following century, and most of the remaining Apalachee and Tequesta peoples settled in a series of missions ...
Uniforms for the War of 1812 were made in Philadelphia.. The design of early army uniforms was influenced by both British and French traditions. One of the first Army-wide regulations, adopted in 1789, prescribed blue coats with colored facings to identify a unit's region of origin: New England units wore white facings, southern units wore blue facings, and units from Mid-Atlantic states wore ...
Little information is currently listed on women's roles as scouts during the 19th century. Sergeant I-See-O (born c. 1849) was a Kiowa who served as an Indian Scout from 1889 until his death in 1927. He served alongside future Army Chief of Staff Hugh L. Scott in the final campaigns of the Indian Wars. In 1915 Scott persuaded Congress to allow ...
Osceola, Häuptling der Seminole-Indianer (1963) by Ernie Hearting, is a German novel featuring Osceola and based on historical sources. In the alternate history novel The Probability Broach (1979), part of the North American Confederacy Series by L. Neil Smith , the United States becomes a Libertarian State after a successful Whiskey Rebellion ...
John Chupco (ca. 1821–1881) was a leader of the Hvteyievlke, or Newcomer, Band of the Seminole during the time of their forced relocation to Indian Territory. [1] They were the last group to move from Florida to Indian Territory. From 1861 to 1866, Chupco served as chief of the Seminole who supported the Union; they
Chipco, also known as Echo Emathla, (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 conflict he was the main leader of the Muscogee-speaking band of Seminoles in Florida. [1]
Payne and other Black Seminoles enlisted in the army October 1871 and became known as one of the Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts.On April 25, 1875, he was serving as a trumpeter by the Pecos River in Texas where, "[w]ith 3 other men, he participated in a charge against 25 hostiles while on a scouting patrol."