Author: Randal J. AgostiniPublisher: Florida Historical Society
ISBN: 0981733794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An Englishman in the Seminole War
Author: Randal J. AgostiniPublisher: Florida Historical Society
ISBN: 0981733794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An Englishman in the Seminole War: A Memoir Based Upon the Letters of John Bemrose
Author: Randal J. AgostiniPublisher: Florida Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9781949810097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
John Bemrose came to America from England as an unaccompanied 16-year-old in 1831. He served in the US Army as a dedicated hospital steward during the Second Seminole War. This exciting memoir, available to the public for the first time, provides valuable new insights into Florida history and culture from An Englishman in the Seminole War.
The African American Heritage of Florida
Author: David ColburnPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1947372696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
Osceola and the Great Seminole War
Author: Thom HatchPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312355912
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"When he died in 1838, Seminole warrior Osceola was the most famous Native American in the world. Born a Creek, Osceola was driven from his home to Florida by General Andrew Jackson where he joined the Seminole tribe. Their paths would cross again when President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act that would relocate the Seminoles to hostile lands and lead to the return of the slaves who had joined their tribe. Outraged Osceola declared war. This vivid history recounts how Osceola led the longest, most expensive, and deadliest war between the U.S. Army and Native Americans and how he captured the imagination of the country with his quest for justice and freedom. Insightful, meticulously researched, and thrillingly told, Thom Hatch's account of the Great Seminole War is an accomplished work that finally does justice to this great leader"--Provided by publisher.
Florida's Big Dig
Author: William G. CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that demanded at the turn of the last century what they believed was the peoples right-a public waterway, free of the burden of tolls; and finally, of the U>S> Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
The New Laokoon
Author: Irving BabbittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Seminole Wars
Author: John MissallPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813027159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Furnishes a comprehensive overview of the Seminole Wars and their place in American history as the longest, bloodiest, and most costly of all Indian wars fought by America and sheds new light on the repercussions of the wars in terms of attitudes toward Native Americans, the issue of slavery, and government policy.
The Enduring Seminoles
Author: Patsy WestPublisher: Florida History and Culture (P
ISBN: 9780813032139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
"A unique social and economic history of the Seminoles and an insightful view of their cultural adaptation and cultural continuity that previously has not been appreciated or understood."--Florida Heritage
Alachua Ambush
Author: Christopher D. KimballPublisher:
ISBN: 9781087808208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Seminole War in Alachua County, Florida, 1840. The war was not over and deadlier than ever. True stories directly from letters, Army reports, and newspapers in the 1840s. Actual accounts and descriptions from the war that have never before been published since their original writing. Forgotten battles and everyday fort life.
Author: JOHN R. SWANTON