Title: America's hundred years' war : U.S. expansion to the Gulf Coast and the fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858 /
Authors: Belko, W. Stephen, 1967-
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Seminole Indians Wars; Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818; Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842; Seminole War, 3rd, 1855-1858; Seminole Indians Government relations.; United States Territorial expansion.; Gulf Coast (U.S.) History; Gulf Coast (U.S.) History
Abstract: "Featuring essays on topics ranging from international diplomacy to Seminole military strategy, America's hundred years' war ... reexamines the traditional line of thought that has previously defined early U.S. expansion into the Spanish Gulf borderlands. America's extended battle with the Seminoles transpired over a period of nearly a century commencing in the decades prior to the American Revolution and ending in the decade before the U.S. Civil War ... Each essayist ... expands the conventional views and periods of U.S.-Seminole contact, and each does so in a variety of manners -- chronologically, geographically, culturally, politically, [and] conceptually"--Page 4 of cover.
Contents: So in fear of both the Indians and the Americans / Susan Richbourg Parker -- King Payne and his policies : a framework for understanding the diplomacy of the Seminoles of la Chua, 1784-1812 / James Cusick -- Epilogue to the war of 1812 : the Monroe administration, American Anglophobia, and the First Seminole War / William S. Belko -- Mr. Rhea's missing letter and the First Seminole War / David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler -- Strategy, operations, and tactics in the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 / Joe Knetsch -- Seminole strategy, 1812-1858 : a prospectus for further research / Samuel Watson -- It is a Negro, not an Indian war? : Southampton, St. Domingo, and the Second Seminole War / Matthew Clavin -- South Carolina volunteers in the Second Seminole War : a nullifier debacle as prelude to the Palmetto State gubernatorial election of 1836 / James M. Denham and Canter Brown Jr -- Forgotten struggle : the Second Creek War in west Florida, 1837-1854 / Brian Rucker.