Find out about the time when Florida was a war zone between the U.S.Army and the Seminole Indians.

In 1781, the American colonies won their independence from Britain. As settlers began to come to the Southeast, they pushed the native tribes out of their homelands into northern Florida. The settlers brought slaves that often escaped into Spanish controlled Florida and lived with the Native Americans where they felt protected. The steadily pushing settlers often engaged in skirmishes with the ...