Seminole Wars

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.

2. a series of conflicts from 1835 to 1842 between U.S. Army forces and the Seminole Indians over the Seminoles' refusal to move from Florida to designated Indian territories.

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Example Sentences

During the Seminole wars of the 1800s, President Andrew Jackson called for the removal of the Seminole people from the area.

From Washington Times

Army officer who fought in the Mexican-American and Seminole wars before joining the Confederacy.

From Fox News

In more than a century and a half since the end of Florida’s Seminole Wars, the Native American tribe has proudly boasted of its status as the only one never to sign a peace treaty with the US government.

From The Guardian

In the early 19th century, a soldier in the Seminole Wars wrote in letters from Florida about shooting a flamingo—“a large male in perfect plumage, whose brilliant hues my eyes dwelt upon in an ecstasy of delight and admiration”—because he had read in school that Romans ate their tongues.

From Slate

They’ve made it through a lot of hurricanes, to say nothing of three Seminole wars, yellow fever, the Civil War, the collapse of the cotton market, the influenza epidemic of 1918, the Great Depression, the property boom of the 1950s, the streaking craze of 1974, the pastel menace of the 1980s and the 2000 recount.

From Washington Post