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A 2007 historical fiction that takes place around the time of the First and Second Seminole Wars. [169] Distant Drums, A 1951 film starring Gary Cooper. Shot on location in Florida and takes place during the Second Seminole War. [170] Seminole, A 1953 movie starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Hale that takes place during the Second Seminole War. [171]
The Scott Massacre, coming after the Fort Mims massacre, was a major factor in convincing the United States government that the Red Stick Creeks and their Native American allies must be defeated, beginning the Seminole Wars. It took place at the end of November 1817 near present-day Chattahoochee, Florida.
"The trial of Ambrister during the Seminole War: Florida" (illus. from 1848) The Arbuthnot and Ambrister incident occurred in April 1818 during the First Seminole War when American General Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish Florida and his troops captured two British citizens, Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister, separately.
The circumstances of exactly how and why Jackson launched first Seminole War were made a campaign issue during the 1824 presidential campaign by Jesse Benton Jr., who shot Jackson in a bar brawl in 1813 as one incident in a much longer relationship between Jackson, Jesse Benton, and Thomas Hart Benton, later a Jacksonian Democratic U.S. Senator ...
Part of the War of 1812: Creek War (1813–14) Part of the War of 1812 United States Choctaw Nation Lower Creeks Cherokee: Red Stick Creek: Treaty of Fort Jackson; First Seminole War (1817–18) United States: Seminole Spanish Florida: Texas–Indian wars (1820–75) Part of the Apache Wars Republic of Texas United States: Comanche: Arikara War ...
October 18 – Edward Ord, engineer and United States Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War, the Indian Wars, and the American Civil War (died 1883) November 5 – Benjamin Butler, major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, leader in impeachment of Andrew Johnson (died 1893)
Some historians date the start of the First Seminole War to the 1817 attack on this Fowltown, which immediately preceded the Scott Massacre. Also, David Brydie Mitchell, former governor of Georgia and Creek Indian agent at the time, stated in a report to Congress that this attack on Fowltown was the start of the First Seminole War. [3]: 33–37 4.
The United States Army would lead increasingly frequent incursions into Spanish territory, including the 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminole Indians by Andrew Jackson that became known later as the First Seminole War. Jackson took temporary control of Pensacola in 1818, and though he withdrew due to Spanish objections, the United States ...