Osceola
Osceola, Chief of the Seminole by George Catlin
Osceola (* 1804 in Alabama , † January 20, 1838 on Sullivan's Island ) was an important leader of the Seminoles in the United States .
Life
He was born in the Creek Indian village of Talisi in what is now Tallassee , Alabama, in 1804 , and moved to Florida with his mother four years later .
Osceola, together with Micanopy, led the Seminoles in the second of the Seminole Wars against the US Army. The war temporarily tied 200,000 US soldiers and was one of the most costly Indian wars in the US.
In 1837, when Osceola approached the Army to negotiate a truce, he was captured under the command of Thomas Jesup and taken to Fort Moultrie , South Carolina , where he died of illness in 1838.
literature
- Thom Hatch: Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom. St. Martin's Press, New York 2012. ISBN 978-0-312-35591-3 (print); ISBN 978-1-466-80454-8 (eBook)
Film adaptations
- James Craig in naked in the sun ( Naked in the Sun ), American Western 1957
- Gojko Mitić in Osceola , DEFA 1971
Individual evidence
- ^ "Osceola" , The Florida Memory Project Florida State Library and Archives.
- ^ Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States . Harper Perennial, 2005, ISBN 0-06-083865-5 , p. 146.
Web links
Commons : Osceola - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Osceola in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Osceola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Leader of the Seminoles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alabama |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1838 |
| Place of death | Sullivan's Island |