Chief Charley Emathla, wanting no part of…

November 1835 CE

Chief Charley Emathla, wanting no part of a war, agrees to removal in November 1835, and sells his cattle at Fort King in preparation for moving his people to Fort Brooke to emigrate to the west.

Other Seminoles, who, months earlier, had declared in council that any Seminole chief who sold his cattle would be sentenced to death, consider this act a betrayal.

Osceola meets Emathla on the trail back to his village and kills him, scattering the money from the cattle purchase across his body.

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Ocala Marion Florida United States View →

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Duncan Lamont Clinch View → Micanopy View → Osceola View → Wiley Thompson View →

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Seminole (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Florida, Territory of (U.S.A.) View → Indian Territory View →

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Party System, Second (United States) View → Jacksonian Democracy (United States) View → Indian Removal (United States) View → Seminole War, Second View →

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