The Battle of Jupiter Inlet was fought in Florida

Florida

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 at Jupiter Inlet on January 15, 1838. A United States

United States

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 Navy

United States Navy

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 led boat expedition to the Everglades

Everglades

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 was defeated by Seminole

Seminole

The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, who now reside primarily in that state and Oklahoma. The Seminole nation emerged in a process of ethnogenesis out of groups of Native Americans, most significantly Creeks from what is now Georgia and Alabama, who settled in Florida in...

 warrior

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s in a small battle. It began when the expedition of 200 soldiers, sailors and marines under Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 Levin M. Powell discovered a trail along the side of Jupiter Inlet. Fifty-five sailors and twenty-five marines and soldiers were landed to find the Seminoles who were encamped nearby under the command of medicine man

Medicine man

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 Ar-pi-uck-i

Ar-pi-uck-i (Sam Jones)

Ar-pi-uck-i, also known as Sam Jones, was a powerful spiritual alektca and war chief of the Miccosukee, a Seminole-Muscogee Creek tribe of the Southeast United States. Ar-pi-uck-i successfully defied the U.S...

. When the Americans advanced on the Seminole camp, they were ambushed and after a long fight, they retired to their ten or so flat bottom boats unsuccessful. Five Americans were killed in action and another twenty-two others were wounded, Seminole casualties are unknown.

See also

• West Indies Squadron
  West Indies Squadron (United States)
  The West Indies Squadron, or the West Indies Station, was a United States Navy squadron that operated in the West Indies in the early nineteenth century. It was formed due to the need to suppress piracy in the Caribbean Sea, the Antilles and the Gulf of Mexico region of the Atlantic Ocean...
  
  
• First Seminole War
• Battle of Woody Point
  Battle of Woody Point
  The Battle of Woody Point was an incident involving the Tla-o-qui-aht Nootka natives of the Pacific Northwest and a United States registered merchant ship...