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SW0159 Fort Foster Volunteers Rip Out Rotten Timber Planks to Restore Replica Post for Public Visits

SW0158 Laumer Library Offers 2,500 Sem War Titles & More to Scholars, Students

SW0157 Podcast Anniversary Highlights Guests’ Breadth, Depth of SemWar Knowledge

SW0156 Couple’s Elegant Mules Lead Solemn Prideful Procession to Commemorate SemWar Fallen

SW0155 SemWar Newspapers Printed Congressional Debates, Art (2 of 2)

SW0154 SemWar Coverage Ebbs and Flows in Era Newspapers (1 of 2)

SW153 Thespian Recalls Louisa Fatio, St Augustine Proprietor and Survivor of Seminole Wars

SW152 Mail Without Fail: Seminole Agency Post Office Processed Parcels Despite Hostile Climate, Terrain, and Indians

SW0151 Navy Vet Personifies Fort Pierce’s Most Worthy Commander

SW150 Florida Cracker, Militia Captain Butch Nipper Mixes Heritage with History

SW0149 Fort King’s School of the Soldier Drills Recruits on 1830s Military Practices

SW0148 Florida Historians Outline How Seminole Struggled to Resist Full Removal and Succeeded

SW147 Historians Use Fiction to Present a Novel View of the Seminole Wars

SW0146 Archaeologist Uncovers South Florida SemWar Artifacts

SW0145 Honoring SemWar Combatants Spurs History Student to Don Soldier Gear

SW0144 Young Soldier Recruit Details SemWar Living History Appeal

SW0143 Gullah Artist Johnny Montgomery Colors SemWar Maroon Heritage with Style

SW0142 Battle of New Orleans Defeat Proved Disastrous for Seminole

SW0141 Digging Deeper to Find, Share the Past Marks SemWar Researcher

SW0140 Regular Guy Citizen Scholar Reflects on Four Decades of SemWar Battle Reenactments

SW0139 Seminole Maroons Hold Reunion to Tell the Full History of Seminole Wars AND Seminole Peace

SW0138 Writer Presents Seminole as Integral Players in Florida’s Past and Present

SW0137 New Blood in Seasoned Packages as Retired Navy Couple Enters the Living History Ranks

SW0136 Nicoll’s Outpost Yields War Site Clues to First Seminole War

SW0135 Longtime Reenactor Shares Trade Knowledge for Accurate SW Presentations

SW0134 Craftsman Explains How to Attire a Seminole Reenactor with One Simple Handbook

SW0133 Soldiers, Seminole Adapted and Innovated Amidst A Climate of Hostility in Florida

SW0132 Three Seminole Wars Told at Florida Pioneer Museum Event Oct. 29

SW0131 How Well Regulated Must a Militia Be to Ensure Security of a Free State...or Florida Territory?

SW0130 Martial Matters 7: Army uses Duplicity, Settlers to Subdue Seminole When Decisive Battle Fails

SW0129 Martial Matters 6: Army Pursuit of Decisive Battle Proves Futile

SW0128 Martial Matters 5: Great Scott! Feuding Commanders’ Stubbornness Risked Catastrophe, Annihilation

SW0127 Martial Matters 4: Manning the Militia for Seminole Wars Service Required Citizens Already Keeping and Bearing Arms

SW0126 Martial Matters 3: Keeping and Bearing Arms with the Militia in Seminole Wars Era Proved Anything But Simple

SW0125 Martial Matters 2: Muskets, Rifles, Bayonets Win Wars -- When in the Right Hands

SW0124 Field a Standing Army or State Militia Volunteers to Remove Seminole?

SW0123 Unsung, Shush-less Librarians Organize Foundation’s Books into Central Access Repository

SW0122 At Foundation’s Archive, Grad Students from UCF Discover Dead Men Do Indeed Tell Tales

SW0121 Master Florida Artist Jackson Walker Depicts Grit and Determination in Seminole Wars

SW0120 Legendary Artist Jackson Walker Speaks About His Big Canvas Legendary Florida Scenes

SW0119 GARI Archaeologists Excavate, Survey to Locate ’Lost’ Seminole Red Town of Chucochatti

SW0118 An Uneven Fate awaited the International Cast of Characters after Prospect Bluff Battle

SW0117 Historian Dale Cox Recalls the Tragic, Devastating American Attack and Destruction of the ’Negro Fort’ at Prospect Bluff in July 1816

SW0116 A British-built Fort at Prospect Bluff in Spanish Florida Shielded Blacks and Indians from U.S. Territorial Designs on Apalachicola River

SW0115 Scholar David Fowler Recovers and Presents Riveting Narratives from One National Newspaper’s 1st Draft of Florida’s U.S. History

SW0114 Marine Vietnam Vet Preserves Corps Heritage as Seminole War-era Leatherneck

SW0113 The Great Rivalry at War: Regulars versus Militia Performance in the Second Seminole War

SW0112 History Hunter Steve Carr Sifts Developer’s Dirt Fill Piles to Reveal Okeechobee Battle Artifacts

SW0111 Dogged Researcher Used Shovels and Smarts to Confirm Okeechobee Battlefield Site

SW0110 Louie Bears Heart Living Historian Issues Urgent Call for Help to Restore Fort Foster

SW0109 Author and Explorer Doug Alderson Examines the Impact of Florida Rivers on Seminole Resistance and Soldier Removal Efforts

SW0108 US Army Scores Rare 2SW Victory in Battle of Camp Monroe with Dragoons, Stubborn Defense, and a Timely Assist from a Navy Gunboat

SW0107 Marines Escape Andrew Jackson’s Wrath with Timely Florida War Deployment; Show Great Value on Land/Swamps in Second Seminole War

SW0106 Marines Earned Sea Legs in the US Frigate Navy; Engaged British, Pirates, Creeks and Seminole on Florida’s Early 1800s Gulf Coast

SW0105 Sanford Living Historian Offers Glimpse into Arduous Lives of Florida Women Pioneers

SW0104 Fort Pierce Black Seminole Heritage Informs Specialist’s Outreach Connects Tribal Members with Educational Opportunities

SW0103 Silent Stone Sentinels and Replica Wooden Structures Stand as Testaments to Florida’s Frontier Fort Past

SW102 Jake Tiger, Descendant of Billy Powell (aka Asi-Yahola), Kindles Seminole Nation Spirit

SW101 Pirate and Heritage Festival Features Pre-Seminole Wars Character Reenactors and Crafts

SW100 Foundation President Details Back Story to Convocations, Publishing, and Member Bennies

SW099 Descendant of Black Seminole Maroons Spreads Peaceful Tidings to Diaspora

SW098 Fort Cooper Days Replays 16-day Skirmish Between Militia/Seminole on Withlacoochee Cove

SW097 Address by Seminole Nation Chief Highlights 3rd Biennial Convocation of Seminole Wars Historians in Jupiter FL this April

SW096 Okeechobee Battlefield Friends Commemorate Christmas Day 1837 Clash

SW095 TwoEggTV is a Good Egg with Historically Compelling Stories of Creek/Seminole Resistance

SW094 Living History Interpreters Bring to Life Commemorative Seminole War Encampment

SW093 Seminole Bruise the Army at Loxahatchee River, But Removal Efforts Continued Unabated

SW092 Honored History Storyteller James Bullock Assesses Context Behind Black Seminole Interpreter Abraham’s Controversial Counsel

SW091 Military Exit Necessitates Unregulated Citizen Militia Defense for Florida Homesteads

SW090 ’Pirate Captain’ Jorge Nunez Plunges the Depths of Seminole Wars’ Enduring Florida Legacy

SW089 Merry Fort Christmas: Replica Seminole Wars Supply Depot Presents Key Logistics Link

SW088 An Englishman in the Second Seminole War Offers Soldier-Level Recollections on Key Events and Figures in long removal conflict

SW087 Battle of Black Point, a Second Seminole Wars Engagement, Highlights Weekend Historical Fare at Pioneer Florida Museum in Dade City

SW086 Seminole Martial Prowess, Resilience, and Sheer Stubborness Stymied Army Removal Efforts

SW085 Festival at Fort King Showcases 1830s Army Life at Start of Second Seminole War

SW084 1817 Encounter on Apalachicola River Not a Massacre But Still a Seminal Battle in a Long War

SW083 Seminole Removal Ends Overt US Hostilities to Tribe, Creates Unexpected Ally in Oklahoma Amidst Rival Tribes

SW082 Laumer‘s Legacy: Historians Indebted to Land Developer, Scholar Frank Laumer, Whose Research Excavated from Dusty Archives an Army Private, the Dade Battle, and the Seminole Wars

SW081 Dade Battlefield Historic State Park at 100, a Preservation Success Recalling Past Era‘s Deeds

SW080 Writer Weaves Tales of Osceola‘s Capture on the Old King‘s Road, Seminole War Flashpoint

SW079 War Reenacting: What Is It Good For? Living Historians Bring Back Past at Florida Parks

SW078 Confederate Torpedo Service Chief, Unsung ‘Father‘ of Coastal Defense, First Blasted Seminole with Early Land Mine Munitions in 1840

SW077 To Understand the Seminole People, Take a Jaunt Along the Seminole Trail throughout Florida

SW076 1950s’ Hollywood Films Carve Fanciful Views of Everglades Struggle to Remove Seminole; Introduce ‘Wilhelm Scream‘ to moviegoers

SW075 At 100 Years, Dade Park Remains a Central Point Raising Awareness of US-Seminole Conflict

SW074 Dade Battlefield Marks Centennial as a Historic State Park; Balances Seminole War Commemoration with Recreation Opportunities

SW073 Showing Mercy and Compassion, the Creek Pocahontas Milly Francis Changed Whites Perception of Indians as Agents of their Destiny

SW072 Osceola‘s Treaty Rejection, Assassination of Indian Agent Gain Him Enduring Notoriety

SW071 Red Stick Creeks Leverage 1813 Mims Massacre to Avenge Prior Unprovoked Attack

SW070 GARI Excavations Under the now-Reconstructed Fort King Reveal Daily 1830s' Life

SW069 Archaeologists, Anthropologists Study Remains of the Day at Tampa's old Fort Brooke Site

SW068 Using Conflict Archaeology, GARI Shows Fort King Road as Key 2SW Transport Enabler

SW067 Fort King Road Warriors: Key Avenue Blazes Military Path through Heart of Reservation

SW066 West Florida's 1821 Transfer Ceremony at Pensacola Confirmed US Acquisition, Presaged Enduring Conflict with Diverse Peninsular Tribes

SW065 Sword-Swinging General Scolds Soldiers, Steeles Resolve at Withlacoochee River Battle

SW064 Historic Florida Militia Commemorates July 10 Florida Bicentennial that Brought Federal Authority, Confrontation to Seminole

SW063 At Charleston Conference, CAMP Historians Pay Homage at Osceola's Grave, Tour Fort Moultrie Seminole Prisoner Holding Cells

SW062 Fort Sumter Union Civil War Commander Battled Seminole at Loxahatchee in 1830s

SW061 GARI Surveys Wahoo Swamp to Spot the Battle Lines to confirm or refute written accounts

SW060 At Wahoo Swamp, Seminoles Continue to Frustrate Army Indian Removal Plans

SW059 College History Professor Illuminates Seminole War Research Hurdles, Faddish Academic Theories, and Joy of Discovery

SW058 Central Florida National Cemetery Honors Veterans on Seminole Wars Hallowed Ground

SW057 Seminole Wars Panels Available for Proposed Freedom Memorial Plaza at Bushnell's Florida National Cemetery

SW056 Unpolished yet Glimmering Gems of Knowledge Await Intrepid Seminole War Scholars

SW055 Delicacy and Discernment Key to Accessing Dormant Knowledge about Seminole Wars

SW054 Author and Historian Shares Techniques to Research the Seminole Wars from Home

SW053 Seminole Frustrated Army by Fighting 2SW on Its Terms, not by Military Expectations

SW052 Military Strategist Examines Evolution of U.S. Army War Preparations on Eve of 2SW

SW051 War as Indian Removal by 'Other Means': Applying Classic Prussian Military Strategist's Insights, Maxims to Second Seminole Conflict

SW050 Park Focus: Loxahatchee River Battlefield Park Hosts Sites of Second Seminole War Clashes

SW049 Irish-Immigrant U.S. Army Private Paddington "Paddy" McCormick Discusses Soldiers' Perspectives at Living History Events

SW048 Gunpowder Warrior Discusses Seminole Fighters' Perspectives at Living History Events

SW047 Digging into the Tantalizing What Ifs Surrounding the 1836 Peace Parley at Camp Izard

SW046 In Seminole Wars, West Point's 1829 Military Academy Graduates Showed Mettle and Officer Corps' Institutionalized Professionalism

SW045 Dade Battlefield Staff Rides Instruct Present-Day Military Leaders in Challenges of Command When Under Fire in Irregular Conflict

SW044 Living Historian Louie Bear's Heart Demonstrates Seminole Cultural Practices to Teach and Educate on Traditional Ways of Life

SW043 Just Who WERE the Black Seminoles?

SW042 Matt Griffin Uses Military Reenactment to Bring Alive the Black Seminole Warrior Spirit

SW041 Waging War Amidst Fear and Anxiety on the Frontier of 1830s Territorial Florida

SW040 Living in Fear and Anxiety on the Frontier of 1830s Territorial Florida

SW039 Army Victuals: Jerry Morris Takes Measure of Marchers by the Volume of their Vittles

SW038: Military Marcher Maps Full 1835 Major Dade Route on Fort King Road and Then Some

SW037 A More Detailed Look at how Major Dade Led His Troops to Massacre on Fort King Road

SW036 Major Dade's Column Battles Seminole Ambush on Fort King Military Road 185 Years Ago

SW035: Original Laumer's Legionnaire of 1963 recalls 1988 Second Major Dade Commemorative March on Fort King Military Road

SW034 Doubting Thomas: Did Dade Battle Survivor Truly Trek an Epic Feat of 60 miles Overnight to Break the News to Fort Brooke?

SW033 Second Seminole War Historical Hobbyist Jesse Marshall Walks the Walk to Talk the Talk

SW032 Frank Laumer and Co. Blaze New Path on an Old Trail in 1963, Retracing Fatal Steps of Major Dade's 1835 March along Fort King Military Road

SW031 Despite Close Call, 3rd Time is Still a Charm for Dade Marchers on 2004 Fort King Road Trek

SW030 On Whim, Ex-Paratrooper, Trucker Joins Laumer's Legion for 1988 March to Dade Battlefield; Remains a Stalwart Sentinel

SW029 Virtual March Honors Seminole Wars Combatants

SW028 Park Spotlight: Dade Battlefield State Park Commemorates Historic Military Event, Hosts Engaging Year-Round Events, Programs

SW027 Why a SECOND Seminole War? Federal Government's Eminent Domain Land Grab Fueled Removal Demands & Invited Imminent Conflict

SW026 War Pressure Forges Lasting Cultural Identity Among Loosely Aligned Seminole Bands

SW025 Archaeologists Reconcile Discrepancies, Omissions in Withlacoochee Cove Battle Accounts

SW024 Black Seminole Leaders Offered Key Support, Collaboration to Native Resistance

SW023 Battle Log: A Short Review of the Long Seminole Wars and Noteworthy Events

SW022 Newnan's 1812 Raid Nearly Leads to 1835 Dade-like Massacre

SW021 Prelude to the Seminole Wars: American 'Patriot' Invasion of Spanish East Florida in 1812

SW020 Seminole War Interpreter, Craftsman Trades on Past to Preserve Tribe's Future

SW019 Crack Survey Team Sights Forgotten Forts Shrouded in Florida Foliage

SW018 Road to Ruin: Retracing the old Fort King Military Road by Strategy

SW017 God Willing a Creek Will Rise: Reinterpreting David Moniac's Heroism and Death at Wahoo Swamp Battle

SW016 Educator Extols Black Seminole Leader John Horse as Florida's First Freedom Fighter

SW015 EFA, A Seminole Dog's Life During Wartime

SW014 Last Roll Call: An 1842 March Carries Fallen Soldiers to Final St Augustine Resting Place

SW013 Sturdy yet Supple Chickees Symbolize Seminole Removal Defiance

SW012 Florida Historical Society Sources Seminole Wars Studies

SW011 Ambush and Anguish in Alachua County

SW010 They're Still Standing: Monuments, Markers & Statues of Florida Seminole Wars

SW009 'Gone to Florida to Fight the Indians' -- A.Henderson, Marine Corps' Commandant, 1836

SW008 'Bard of the South' Sings of Seminole Wars

SW007 Captain Coe Advocates for the Red Patriots

SW006 A Seminole Looks Back...and Forward

SW005 Second Seminole War as a Florida Negro War

SW004 Finding a Lost Battlefield of the Seminole Wars

SW003 A National Newspaper Chronicles the War

SW001 What were the Seminole Wars?

SW002 Removal spawns resistance