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OSCEOLA

Osceola was a chief of the Seminole Indian. He was born in 1804 and died in 1838. He inaugurated the second Seminole War in 1836 by killing General Thompson in revenge for the kidnapping and enslavement of his wife by the whites. He conducted the war for over a year, fighting at the Withlacoochee River, Micanopy and Port Drane. He was treacherously seized while negotiating a treaty under a. flag of truce with General Jesup near St Augustine in 1837, and was imprisoned.
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