Jackson burns Tallahassee town, 1818: "the Indian village called Tallahasse" (Tallahassee, March 31–April 1, 1818)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1818 · Places: Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Europe
SUMMARYJackson burns Tallahassee town, 1818: "the Indian village called Tallahasse" (Tallahassee, March 31–April 1, 1818) [Connections: Tallahassee & Orlando, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDAndrew Jackson's army (about 800 regulars, 1,000 Tennessee volunteers, 1,000 Georgia militia and about 1,400 Lower Creek allies under William McIntosh) entered Spanish Florida on March 15, 1818. On March 31 a Red Stick village at Tallahassee was burned and two prisoners taken; the Miccosukee town fell the next day; "more than 300 Indian homes were destroyed." Jackson's adjutant Col. Robert Butler wrote that they "advanced on the Indian village called Tallahasse [sic] [where] two of the enemy were made prisoner." When commissioners picked the capital site, it was "virtually abandoned after Andrew Jackson burned it in 1818."
PATTERNThe capital's site was "empty" in 1824 because a US army had burned the Native town six years earlier
LENS (WW9)They did not find an empty field; they made one
OPENButler's full report and the count of homes by town need the primary text (American State Papers, Military Affairs)
SOURCETallahassee (Wikipedia), citing Butler; First Seminole War (Wikipedia).