October 1837
Military detention / Seminole resistanceBook sources
U.S. forces seize Osceola during truce negotiations
Near St. Augustine, Florida
Osceola was taken prisoner while negotiating under a white flag of truce during the Second Seminole War. U.S. authorities imprisoned him at Fort Marion and later transferred him to Fort Moultrie, where he died in January 1838.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
The entry uses month-level precision supported by the cited NPS account; October 1 is only a sorting anchor. His capture and death did not end Seminole resistance. Zinn’s separate story about the enslavement of his wife is not adopted without further source checking.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 7, pp. 145–146; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- National Park Service, Osceola; account of October 1837 capture and subsequent imprisonment ↗