StNicholas [serial] . large number of braves gathered nearFort King. Their rifles were kept ready for bat-tle. Soon after, three white men were woundedand a white mail-carrier killed. The chief,Emaltha, who was friendly to the treaty, wasassassinated. The war had begun. It was now 1836 and Osceola was thirty yearsold. Hearing that Major Dade, with no officersand men, was to pass along the military roadfrom Fort Brooke at Tampa Bay, Osceola sentMicanopy and Jumper with 800 of his warriorsto wait in ambush for them. It was so well ar-ranged that the whole command except three menwere killed. The
StNicholas [serial] . large number of braves gathered nearFort King. Their rifles were kept ready for bat-tle. Soon after, three white men were woundedand a white mail-carrier killed. The chief,Emaltha, who was friendly to the treaty, wasassassinated. The war had begun. It was now 1836 and Osceola was thirty yearsold. Hearing that Major Dade, with no officersand men, was to pass along the military roadfrom Fort Brooke at Tampa Bay, Osceola sentMicanopy and Jumper with 800 of his warriorsto wait in ambush for them. It was so well ar-ranged that the whole command except three menwere killed. These three men escaped to Tampa 58 FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS and told the terrible story. Osceola himself hadremained with a small force near Fort King, forhe wished to kill the Indian Agent, his long-timeenemy. Lieutenant Smith and the agent werewalking quietly toward the sutlers shop, a halfmile from the stockade, when a number of In-dians set upon them and both were killed. Theagent was pierced by fourteen bullets and the. THE ONLY TREATY I WILL EXECUTE IS WITH THIS! lieutenant with five. The sutler and four otherswere killed, and the store and out-buildingsburned. The fire gave the first alarm at the the meantime, Osceolas warriors under Mica-nopy and Jumper had been so prompt that thefirst battle was over before their leader joinedthem. Then the dreadful war went on. Osceolamet General Clinch with iooo regular soldiers atthe crossing of the Withlacoochee River. Therewere not a thousand Indians, but Osceola broughtthem into battle like an experienced general. Hismen followed his own brave example and fought with tiger-like ferocity. Osceola is said to haveslain forty of our officers and men with his ownhand. The Indians fought till their ammunitionwas gone, and then with bows and arrows andknives. After this, Osceola went through many bat-tles, but never despaired and never surren-dered till the fearful battle came when theIndians were defeated byGeneral Taylor. Then thewa
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