Fort Basinger (Seminole War Fort)
Fort Basinger's original site is located approximately 35 miles (56 km)west of Fort Pierce, Florida along U. S. Highway 98 in Highlands County, Florida. It was a stockaded fortification with two blockhouses that was built in 1837 by the United States Army. It was one of the military outposts created during the Second Seminole War to assist Colonel Zachary Taylor's troops to confront and capture Seminole Indians and their allies in the central part of the Florida Territory in the Lake Okeechobee region. The Seminole Indians and their allies were resisting forced removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River as directed by the Indian Removal Act.
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Fort Basinger (Seminole War Fort)
Fort Basinger's original site is located approximately 35 miles (56 km)west of Fort Pierce, Florida along U. S. Highway 98 in Highlands County, Florida. It was a stockaded fortification with two blockhouses that was built in 1837 by the United States Army. It was one of the military outposts created during the Second Seminole War to assist Colonel Zachary Taylor's troops to confront and capture Seminole Indians and their allies in the central part of the Florida Territory in the Lake Okeechobee region. The Seminole Indians and their allies were resisting forced removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River as directed by the Indian Removal Act.
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Fort Basinger's original site ...... ted by the Indian Removal Act.
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Fort Basinger - Second and Third Seminole War Fort .
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Completely destroyed.
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Fort Basinger was built as a ...... the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
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Abandoned after the Third Seminole War and eroded away.
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Regular army troops and Militia.
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Approximately 35 miles west of ...... in Highlands County, Florida.
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Pine logs .
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Fort Basinger
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Colonel Zachary Taylor
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Fort Basinger's original site ...... ted by the Indian Removal Act.
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