King philip seminole biography
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Ee-mat-la
Not to be confused with Metacomet.
Ee-mat-la, also known as King Phillip, (9 October 1739 - 8 October 1839) was a Seminolechief during the Second Seminole War.
He was captured while camped at Dunlawton plantation,[1] and held at Fort Marion. He died while being transported west in 1839.[2]
He was "also a very aged chief, who has been a man of great notoriety and distinction in his time, but has now got too old for further warlike enterprize."[3][4]
His son was Coacoochee (Wild Cat).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Joe Knetsch (2003). Florida's Seminole wars, 1817-1858. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 104–105. ISBN .
- ^Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde, Jr.The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.
- ^""LETTER—No. 57". Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, George Catlin, (First published in London in 1844)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
- ^"The Seminole Longshirt The Seminole Longshirt" 19th Century Seminole Men`s Clothing, M. E. (Pete) Thompson and Rick Obermeyer, NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art
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By Jim Robison from the Winter 2013 edition of Reflections Magazine
Whether you’ve served in the U.S. Army or not, a lot of folks have heard the Army’s “HOOah” cry, especially after Al Pacino’s character popularized it in the movie “Scent of a Woman.” But most folks, even most Floridians, have no idea that the cry has roots in our state and to Seminole history.
The catch-all response for just about any military situation shouted by grunts to top brass can be traced back to Coacoochee, the Seminole whose name means “chief-to-be.” (His father was King Philip, an important Seminole chief.) The 2nd Dragoons at Fort Mellon (Sanford) nicknamed him Wildcat.
The same soldiers told lore passed down by military generations that found its way to Hollywood when Pacino’s Lt. Col. Frank Slade, the bitter, blind retired Army officer in the movie, repeatedly roars, “HOOah!”
Army Spc. James Pernol, a military public affairs journalist at Fort Dix, N.J., cites the official Army position, supported by military history, that attributes the origin of the term to Coacoochee and the 2nd Dragoons (mounted riflemen) assigned to the Florida wars in 1841.
At a banquet following truce talks with the Seminoles, Coacoochee listened as officers of the garrison offered toasts, including “Here’s to
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Wild Cat (Seminole)
Alachua band (c. 1810–1857)
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