Selasa, 29 Agustus 2017

On Removing Seminoles

Andrew Jackson’s policy of ‘Indian Removal’ ran into trouble in Florida—his name was Osceola. On Christmas morning 1837 Colonel Zachary Taylor and nearly 900 men—Regulars of the 1st, 4th and 6th Infantry regiments, plus 132 Missouri militiamen and a handful of Delaware Indian guides—cautiously approached a wooded hummock on the marshy edge of south Florida’s …

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