Seminole Wars

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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 Seminole Tribe of Florida tend to view the conflict as one long war as opposed to three separate wars. This happened because even when the Seminole were not in direct conflict with the Army, they still faced violence and aggression from American settlers, local militias, lawmen, and slave catchers. 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...

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