A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . mistake did he make? 46. Whydid Jessup seize Osceola?4T. What further can you state of Osceola? VAN BUREN S ADMINISTRATION. 261 ident of the United States) to proceed against them. Withabout a thousand men Taylor accordingly marched, and onthe 25th of December, 1S37, encomitered the Indians instrong force on the northern side of Lake Okeechobee, anddefeated them in one of the most desperate and hotly con-tested battles in the annals of our warfare wit
A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . mistake did he make? 46. Whydid Jessup seize Osceola?4T. What further can you state of Osceola? VAN BUREN S ADMINISTRATION. 261 ident of the United States) to proceed against them. Withabout a thousand men Taylor accordingly marched, and onthe 25th of December, 1S37, encomitered the Indians instrong force on the northern side of Lake Okeechobee, anddefeated them in one of the most desperate and hotly con-tested battles in the annals of our warfare with the red men. Xy. Though the Seminoles continued their hostilitiesthrough the administration of Jackson, as well as that of hisimmediate successor, they never again rallied in large treaty was made with them in 1839, but it was not till1842 that peace was finally secured. YA^ BURETS ADMINISTRATION. I. Jackson wassucceeded in thepresidency byMartin Van Bu-ren, of New Burens ad-ministration wascontinued duringone term, or fouryears, extending from the 4th of March, 1837,f the day of inauguration, to the4th of March, OCEAN ^ * The first regular passages across the Atlantic by steamships were made in 1838, by the Sirius andGreat Western. t President Van Burens cabinet was constituted as follows: John Forsyth, Secretary of State; LeviWoodbury, Secretary of the Treasury ; Joel R. Poinsett, Secretary of War ; Mahlon Dickerson, Secretaryof the Navy ; Benjamin F. Butler, Attorney-General ; and Amos Kendall, Postmaster-General. All ofthese, except Poinsett, had held their respective offices in Jacksons cabinet at the close of his last 1838, Dickerson and Butler resigned, and James K. Paulding was appointed in the place of the former,and Felix Grundy in that of the latter. Grundy was succeeded in 1840, by Henry D. Gilpin, and Kendallby John M. Niles. XIV. Questions.—iS. Did the capture of Osceola end the war or not? did Jessup order to g
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