The US lost its costliest war to a few hundred Seminole guerrillas

Evidence

The Second Seminole War was a military disaster. It required 50,000 soldiers and, between the daunting natural tangle that is the Everglades and the fierce resistance of the Seminoles, the United States suffered an expensive and humiliating defeat. The Second Seminole War, which was waged between 1835 and 1842, took the lives of almost 1,500 American soldiers with a federal government price tag of at least $40 million. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 157

Categorization

• XREF: Overlaps with Haiti and Algerian resistance cases in the polyad — land-based peoples defeating nominally superior powers. — connects to: The US broke truce flags and used bloodhounds against the Seminoles — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 161; A Pentagon lawyer equated Seminole resistance with modern-day al-Qaeda in a Guantánamo brief — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 504

Broader Connections

• The US broke truce flags and used bloodhounds against the Seminoles #qualifies (0.80) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 161
• A Pentagon lawyer equated Seminole resistance with modern-day al-Qaeda in a Guantánamo brief #responds-to (0.75) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 504