Much on the Seminole War in Florida...

Item # 708175

March 20, 1819

ESSEX REGISTER, Salem, Massachusetts, March 20, 1819 Over a full page of reports--half on the front page and half on page 2--is taken up with: "Documents Accompanying the Strictures on Mr. Lacock's Report on the Seminole War", this being the first of 3 Seminole Wars. Included are 6 letters signed by: Andrew Jackson.
In this war General Andrew Jackson led an incursion into the Florida territory over Spanish objections. Jackson's forces destroyed several Seminole and Black Seminole towns, as well as the briefly occupied Pensacola before withdrawing in 1818.
Four pages, minor repair at the spine, good condition.