The battle site, Riverbend Park, has a history of human habitation dating back 5,000 years. The Second Seminole War was part ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of America its independence. The so-called "Second Spanish Period" lures ...

Seminole Indians of Florida survived three war and never signed a peace treaty with the U.S. government In the 1850s, soldiers held captured Seminoles in what historians call a concentration camp ...