Many chiefs, including Micanopy, have surrendered by…
June 1837 CE
Many chiefs, including Micanopy, have surrendered by the end of May.
Two important leaders, Osceola and Sam Jones (a.k.a. Abiaca, Ar-pi-uck-i, Opoica, Arpeika, Aripeka, Aripeika), have not surrendered, however, and are known to be vehemently opposed to relocation.
On June 2, these two leaders with about two hundred followers enter the poorly guarded holding camp at Fort Brooke and lead away the seven hundred Seminoles there who had surrendered.
The war is on again, and Jesup will never again trust the word of a native.
On Jesup's orders, Brigadier General Joseph Marion Hernández commands the expedition that captures several native leaders, including Coacoochee (Wildcat), Osceola, and Micanopy when they appear for conferences under a white flag of truce.
Coacoochee and a number of other captives are able to escape their cell at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, but Osceola does not go with them.
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