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
The Dade Monument, located at the West Point Cemetery.
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
Francis L. Dade
…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 battle, the first engagement of the Second Seminole War, and one of the worst U.S. military defeats at the hands of Native Americans. After his death, Dade…
Engraving of Gaines and his troops discovering the corpses of Dade's column
Dade Monument, St. Augustine National Cemetery