Florida History

After the start of the Second Seminole War in Florida, the U.S. Army built forts all across the territory. In what is now eastern Orange County near present day Orlando, the fort built there in 1837 was named after the day soldiers arrived in...

The battle that began the Second Seminole War in Florida on December 28, 1835 took the lives of over 100 soldiers and several Native Americans. It was a last desperate attempt by the Seminoles and their black allies to hold onto their land and...

The battle that began the Second Seminole War in Florida is re-fought by reenactors during the first week in January every year. Presented by the Dade Battlefield Society at the Dade Battlefield Historical Park, this event will take you back in...

The massacre of over 100 U.S. Army soldiers in frontier Florida of 1835 by desperate Seminoles and their black allies led to the Second Seminole War. A spectacular reenactment of that event occurs every year halfway between Tampa and Ocala...

A tragic seven-year period in Florida history began on December 28, 1835.  The nasty business of slavery was still thriving in what was then a territory of the United States and most of the surviving Native Americans were desperately trying to...