USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Osceola led the Seminole resistance to removal until he was captured on October 21, 1837, by deception, under a flag of truce, when he went to a site near Fort Peyton for peace talks.

Detailed explanation-2: -After being captured under a false flag of truce, Osceola died a prisoner of the US Army at Fort Moultrie in January 1838. He is buried outside of the fort’s sallyport. Osceola’s early life is largely unknown.

Detailed explanation-3: -Billy Bowlegs-Billy Bowlegs was a leader of a tribe located near Tampa Bay. He refused to leave Florida when many other leaders were signing away their land and relocating to Oklahoma. He was the leader of the Seminole Indians during the Third Seminole War.

Detailed explanation-4: -Osceola, a young Seminole leader organized opposition to the relocation. The Second Seminole Indian War began on December 28, 1935 when Osceola and a band of warriors killed the Indian Agent and four other whites at Fort King.

Detailed explanation-5: -Osceola, the most well-known leader of the Seminole Indians, was born in 1804 in a Creek town near Tallassee, present-day Tuskegee, Alabama. His Creek mother, Polly Copinger, was married to Englishman William Powell.