| 单词 | seminole war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSeminole war Seminole war n. any of three wars waged by the U.S. against the Seminole Indians in 1817–18, 1835–42, and 1855–8. ΚΠ 1818 Republican Constellation (Winchester, Va.) 11 July 2/1 Gen. Jackson..obtained full proof that the Spanish authorities at Pensacola had been active in fomenting the Seminole war. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. ii. i. 71 Probably few of the United States troops who fell in the late Seminole war knew how the strife arose. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 768/2 The Seminole war in Florida (1835–37). 1948 Florida Hist. Q. July 35 Had not the Seminole war intervened, there is little question that the settlement of the present Taylor county would have begun ten years earlier than it did. 1973 D. Aaron Unwritten War iv. xi. 171 Sergeant Weber..veteran of the Seminole War. < as lemmas |
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