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an influential leader of the Seminole in Florida. Of mixed parentage, Creek, Scots-Irish, and English, he was raised as a Creek by his mother, as the tribe had a matrilineal kinship system. They migrated to Florida when he was a child, with other Red Stick refugees, after their defeat in 1814 in the Creek Wars. The principal leader of the Second Seminole War, he led a small band successfully resisting the U.S. Army for over two years before his capture in 1837.
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Cornplanter1750s ca1816
 
18311831
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Charles Grey1764, Mar 131786
 
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William Wirt1772, Nov 81792
 
18341834, Feb 18
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18351835, Mar 2
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18441844, Mar 8
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18461846, Feb 21
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18481848, Apr 10
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18481848, Jan 20
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18501850, Nov 19
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18521853, Mar 9
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18591863
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18591859, Dec 28
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1861777
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18601866, Jun 17
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18691859
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18721872, Nov 29
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18791877
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