COURTESY MICANOPY HISTORICAL SOCIETY “Charge With Every Man” painting of Battle of Micanopy, Second Seminole War (June 9, 1836) by Jackson Walker. On Dec. 28, 1835, Major Francis Dade and 110 soldiers were taking supplies to Fort King (near today’s Ocala, Fla.) and massacred by 180 Seminole Indians triggering the Second Seminole Indian War.

April 12, 2020