Osceola taken under a white flag; Coacoochee climbs out of Fort Marion (St. Augustine, 1837)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1837 · Places: Florida, Carolinas, South America, Europe
SUMMARYOsceola taken under a white flag; Coacoochee climbs out of Fort Marion (St. Augustine, 1837) [Connections: Masonic color line, asylums, castles, wight, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDThe National Park Service says Gen. Thomas Jesup summoned Seminole leaders to Fort Peyton under "the pretense of a peaceful parley." They "approached the fort, under a white flag of truce," then "were surrounded by soldiers and taken as prisoners." "Over 230 prisoners were eventually brought to St. Augustine and imprisoned inside Fort Marion," among them Osceola. "On the night of November 29, 1837," prisoners escaped "by climbing out of a window in a room in the southwest corner of the fort." Army records say about 20 escaped; Coacoochee (Wild Cat) said only he and one other got out. Osceola was moved to Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, where he died and is buried. The fort had been renamed Fort Marion by Army order on 7 January 1825; Congress restored "Castillo de San Marcos" in 1942. HOSTILE
WITNESSUS Army records
PATTERNA Spanish fort became an American prison for the nations
LENS (WW9)The truce flag was the trap
OPENBlack Seminole prisoners at Fort Marion are not mentioned on the NPS page. Check the 1837–38 prisoner lists
SOURCENPS: Seminole Incarceration; NPS: Fort Marion.