Of the three Seminole wars, ... In March 1818, Gen. Andrew Jackson and an army of 800 regulars and 900 Georgia militia embarked on a mission to "seize Florida." ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

ANDREW JACKSON AND HIS INDIAN WARS. By Robert V. Remini. Viking, $26.95. ... Treaties were signed and broken. Wars erupted -- the Creek War, the first and second Seminole wars.

This is the first of two columns looking at Tallahassee’s decision to drop Andrew Jackson as the leading symbol of its annual spring parade. Today: Was Jackson the bad guy? Is Tallahassee cor… ...

Andrew Jackson was a slaver, ethnic cleanser, and tyrant. ... Robert Ambrister and Alexander George Arbuthnot, executed during the First Seminole War in Spanish Florida.

The First Seminole War, in 1818, saw Gen. Andrew Jackson chase Seminoles through northern parts of Spanish Florida, still three years from coming under the Stars and Stripes.. The Third Seminole ...

Andrew Jackson rose from poverty to become a lawyer, landowner, founder of the Democratic Party and major military general. ... Jackson used that as a pretext to launch the Seminole War of 1818.

The letter that created one of the most widely retold legends of the Seminole leader Osceola came from the White House. In February of 1835, President Andrew Jackson took pen in hand to write a ...

He was a hot-headed general, quick to violence and known to overstep his legal bounds, as when he summarily executed two Britons for aiding the Indian enemy during the First Seminole War.

1817: The First Seminole War begins as U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson enter Florida to capture runaway slaves, attacking Seminole villages and Spanish fortifications. The conflict ceases ...