For decades, people talking about what probably is West Palm Beach's oldest home repeated the story — that the original owner ...

A highly literate man and a forceful memoirist, Semmes wrote up his adventures at sea before and during the Civil War. Semmes had served in the Second Seminole War. In the war with Mexico, he ...

Many Black Seminoles left Florida for Andros Island in the Bahamas. In 1835, during the Second Seminole War, the Maroons and Seminoles continued their resistance, mounting a full-scale guerrilla ...

and Native Americans in the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the second Seminole War in Florida in 1835. His performance in the Seminole War won Taylor the rank of brigadier general. In 1845 President ...

It really was a military trail. During the Second Seminole War, the longest and costliest of the Native American wars and one of the most unpopular in U.S. history, Maj. William Lauderdale was ...