Seminole Wars
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The Seminole 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 possession. Tensions grew between the Seminoles and American settlers in the newly independent United States in the early 1800s, mainly because enslaved people regularly fled from Georgia into Spanish Florida, prompting slaveowners to conduct slave raids across the border. What began as small cross-border skirmishes became the First Seminole War, as Andrew Jackson led U.S. forces into Florida—despite Spanish objections—to pursue the Seminoles. Jackson's forces destroyed several Seminole, Mikasuki and Black Seminole towns, as well as captured Fort San Marcos and briefly occupied Pensacola before withdrawing in 1818. In 1819 the U.S. and Spain agreed to transfer Florida in the Adams–Onís Treaty; in return, the United States renounced its claims to Texas and fixed the boundary at the Sabine River.
1816 — 1858
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Florida Wars
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Location: 30.4214, -87.2172, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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Portrait d'un chef Séminoles de Floride, peau de tigre - Edouard PINGRET
Darius N. Couch (cropped)
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WilliamWhitaker
Marines battle Seminole Indians in the Florida War (1835–1842)
John Parkhill
Ee-mat-la
MaryWyattWhitaker
Pilaklikaha
The American Soldier, 1839| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| event | armed conflict | 1707 | Siege of Pensacola | Muscogee, siege, Province of Carolina | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1707 | Second Siege of Pesacola | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1719 | Capture of Pensacola | Kingdom of France, battle, Kingdom of Spain | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1781 | Siege of Pensacola | battle, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1814 | Battle of Pensacola | United States, battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Spain | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1861 | Battle of Pensacola | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1861 | Battle of Santa Rosa Island | battle | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1816 | Seminole Wars | Spain, United States, war, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Seminole, Choctaw, freedman | Wikidata |
| site | artillery battery | Bateria de San Antonio | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Barrancas | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort McRee | destroyed building or structure, fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Pickens | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | 1778 | Fort George | fort | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1962 | National Naval Aviation Museum | naval museum, aviation museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 2007 | Civil War Soldiers Museum | military museum | Wikidata |
| site | shipwreck | 1896 | USS Massachusetts | pre-dreadnought battleship, Indiana-class battleship, shipwreck | Wikidata |
| commons | image | Portrait d'un chef Séminoles de Floride, peau de tigre - Edouard PINGRET | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Darius N. Couch (cropped) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Black-sem-detail-1st-war | Commons | ||
| commons | image | WilliamWhitaker | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Marines battle Seminole Indians in the Florida War (1835–1842) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | John Parkhill | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Ee-mat-la | Commons | ||
| commons | image | MaryWyattWhitaker | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Pilaklikaha | Commons | ||
| commons | image | The American Soldier, 1839 | Commons | ||
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