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The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858. The Seminoles are a Native American nation which coalesced in northern Florida during the early 1700s, when the territory was still a Spanish colonial ...
William Henry Whitaker (c. 1821–1888) was an American Seminole War veteran and pioneer who, under the provisions of the Armed Occupation Act, established the first permanent settlement in what is now Sarasota, Florida. [1] [2] There he traded mullet with Cubans to bring the first groves of economically important oranges to the state.
There were four leading chiefs of the Seminole, a Native American tribe that formed in what was then Spanish Florida in the present-day United States.They were leaders between the time the tribe organized in the mid-18th century until Micanopy and many Seminole were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s following the Second Seminole War.
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 ...
Seminole population appeared to be increasing during the early 19th century. It was estimated at 5,000 people in 1820, [64] 4,883 people in 1821 (as reported by Neamathla) [65] 6,385 people in 1822 (as reported by Captain Hugh Young), up to 10,000 people [66] in 1836 (at the beginning of the Second Seminole War). Perhaps the population was ...
Spanish Rule, 1783–1821: War of 1812, 1811–1814; First Seminole War, 1817–1818; ... The Second Seminole War began at the end of 1835 with the Dade Battle, ...
[3]: 54–76 "Unlike smaller posts such as Fort Gaines and Fort Hughes, the fort was a massive affair designed to house a full brigade of U.S. troops," [3]: 141 and it would remain staffed by "a large force" until 1821. [3]: 213 It was "the supply and logistics base for operations during the First Seminole War." [3]: 173
Cantonment Clinch was an Army fort in Pensacola, Florida built about 1822 (originally called Camp Hope and Camp Brady) and active through the early 1830s. It was established during the First Seminole Wars to house United States troops during a yellow fever epidemic in Pensacola and at Fort Barrancas.