Dade battle
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The Dade battle was an 1835 military defeat for the United States Army. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 the U.S. was attempting to force the Seminoles to move away from their land in Florida prov
Engraving of Gaines and his troops discovering the corpses of Dade's column
Dade Monument, St. Augustine National Cemetery
Francis L. Dade
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Major Francis Langhorne Dade was a United States Army officer who served in the War of 1812 and the Seminole Wars. Dade was killed in an ambush by Seminole warriors that came to be known as the Dade b
Dade battle
…and relocate to Indian Territory under the terms of the Treaty of Payne's Landing. Two U.S. Army companies numbering 103 men under the command of Major Francis L. Dade were ambushed by approximately 180 Seminole and Black Seminole warriors as they marched from Fort Brooke on Tampa Bay to reinforce Fort King in Ocala…
The Dade Monument, located at the West Point Cemetery.