The First Seminole War begins: Major General Andrew Jackson, commanding the Seventh Military District of the Army of the united States, under orders from John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, invades the Spanish enclave of East Florida.
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References:
Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, (New York: HarperPerennial, 1997), 328.
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