Osceola's Seminole Resistance

Osceola

A Seminole military and political leader. Named Billy Powell at birth, he was raised in Creek culture with his mother, Polly Coppinger. Following the Creek War in 1814, he migrated to Florida with his mother and joined the Seminole people. He strongly resisted the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and western relocation policies, leading the resistance against U.S. forces during the Second Seminole War. In 1837, he was captured under the guise of peace negotiations under a flag of truce and passed away the following year at Fort Moultrie.

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Year	Osceola
1804	Birth of Osceola (Period: c. 1804 (exact date unknown), Location: The Upper Creek village of Talisi, present-day Tallassee, Alabama)
1813	Creek War (Age: 9 years old, Period: 1813–1814, Location: Southeastern United States, centered around Alabama)
1814	Osceola's Migration to Florida (Age: 10 years old, Period: c. 1814 – late 1810s, Location: Alabama to Spanish Florida)
1817	First Seminole War (Age: 13 years old, Period: 1817–1818, Location: Present-day Florida)
1823	Treaty of Moultrie Creek (Age: 19 years old, Period: September 18, 1823, Location: Near present-day St. Augustine, Florida)
1830	Emergence as a Seminole Resistance Leader (Age: 26 years old, Period: Early 1830s, Location: Present-day Florida)
1832	Treaty of Payne's Landing (Age: 28 years old, Period: May 9, 1832, Location: Payne's Landing near Ocala, Florida Territory)
1835	Second Seminole War (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1835–1842, Location: Florida) Osceola's Detention at Fort King (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1835, Location: Fort King, near present-day Ocala, Florida) Marriage of Osceola and Che-cho-ter (Age: 31 years old, Period: Unknown, married by 1835, Location: Unknown (believed to be Seminole inhabited area in Florida)) Killing of Charley Emathla (Age: 31 years old, Period: November 1835, Location: Road toward Fort King, present-day Florida) Ambush of Wiley Thompson at Fort King (Age: 31 years old, Period: December 28, 1835, Location: Fort King, near present-day Ocala, Florida) Battle of the Withlacoochee (Age: 31 years old, Period: December 31, 1835, Location: Withlacoochee River, present-day Florida)
1836	Continuation of Seminole Resistance (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1836–1837, Location: Central and Southern Florida)
1837	Imprisonment at Fort Marion (Age: 33 years old, Period: October–December 1837, Location: Fort Marion, present-day St. Augustine, Florida) Capture of Osceola Under a Flag of Truce (Age: 33 years old, Period: October 21, 1837, Location: Near Fort Peyton, south of present-day St. Augustine, Florida) Transfer to Fort Moultrie (Age: 33 years old, Period: December 1837, Location: Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina)
1838	Death of Osceola (Age: 34 years old, Period: January 30, 1838)
Unknown	Marriage of Osceola to an Unnamed Woman (Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)

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The Randolph Family	Peyton Randolph John Randolph of Roanoke Edmund Jennings Randolph Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. John Randolph
The Harrison Family	Benjamin Harrison V Carter Henry Harrison I William Henry Harrison Carter Bassett Harrison Benjamin Harrison IV
Wars with Indigenous Peoples and Territorial Expansion	Andrew Jackson William Henry Harrison John Sevier Isaac Shelby Tecumseh William Weatherford Pushmataha Osceola Sequoyah
Texas annexation	James Knox Polk John Tyler Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Samuel Houston Stephen Fuller Austin

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