Second Seminole War/Timelines: Difference between revisions

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A sequence of significant events in the Second Seminole War.

1817-1818: First Seminole War; Andrew Jackson invades Florida.

1821: Florida transferred from Spain to the United States.

1823: Treaty of Moultrie Creek establishes reservation in the middle of Florida..

1828: Andrew Jackson elected President of the United States.

1830: Indian Removal Act makes removal of Indians to west of the Mississippi River U.S. policy.

1832: Treaty of Payne's Landing calls for removal of Florida Indians to west of the Mississippi River.

December 23, 1835:

Indians kill 106 U.S. soldiers from ambush in the Dade Massacre.

Indian agent Wiley Thompson and six others killed at Fort King by Osceola and his followers.

1836:

Indians burn Cape Florida lighthouse.

1837:

Battle of Hatchee-Lustee.

Osceola captured under a white flag of truce.

1838: Battle of Loxahatchee.

1839:

Truce with Indians.

More than 20 soldiers and civilians killed in attack on trading post on the Caloosahatchee River.

1840: Indians overrun settlement on Indian Key.

1842: Second Seminole War declared over.

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