"This you may be assured is a negro, not an Indian war" (Gen. Thomas S. Jesup, Dec. 9, 1836)

SUMMARY"This you may be assured is a negro, not an Indian war" (Gen. Thomas S. Jesup, Dec. 9, 1836) (Nov 7, 2026)

RECORD (letter, Head Quarters, Army of the South, Volusia, Florida, to Gov. William Schley of Georgia; Digital Library of Georgia dlg_zlna_tcc600)"This you may be assured is a negro, not an Indian war"; "it is of the utmost importance to the South that it be instantly closed"; "By a fortunate capture of an Indian and about forty negroes, on the 3rd inst., I have obtained a knowledge of the positions of the several chiefs."

LENS (Rule 13, an admission against interest)the U.S. commander himself sorted the Seminole fighters by color and named the war after the dark ones. PATTERN with P846: the darker people inside an Indigenous nation get reclassified as "negro," and the war or removal is aimed at them. Connects: P192, the Black Seminoles, Fort Mose guide.