On this day in 1837, Africans and Native Americans who had formed Florida's Seminole Nation decisively defeated an invading U.S. force more than twice their size, led by slaveowner and future U.S. president Zachary Taylor.
Since the founding of the U.S., escaped African slaves had settled in modern-day Florida. At the same time, Seminoles suffering under Creek rule in Alabama and Georgia were fleeing south to seek independence. There, the two groups formed an alliance, sharing cultivation techniques and putting up armed resistance against colonization and slaver forces.
The U.S. repeatedly invaded territory controlled by this alliance, and, on Christmas Day in 1837, 380 to 480 Seminole fighters gathered on the northeast corner of Florida's Lake Okeechobee ready to halt the armies of Colonel Zachary Taylor, a Louisiana slaveholder and future U.S. president.
Seminole riflemen waited for the soldiers in trees, firing on them from above. The battle was a decisive defeat for U.S. forces, however Taylor falsely claimed a victory when returning to Fort Gardner.
Dec. 26, 1835: Second Seminole War, Largest Uprising of the Enslaved 
Christmas day freedom fighters: hidden history of the Seminole anticolonial struggle - William Katz 
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TV is playing Teen Titans Go in the background. Three observations:
CN devotes a lot of timeslots to this show.
These kids have some kinda blood feud with Santa going on.
Santa is also in the mob. Beast Boy has literally testified against the man in court and gone into witness protection.
There was day when Cartoon Network played a 24 hour teen titans go special and right after that the regular show finale, many people were angry about that because the finale had very few viewers
theres a lot to hate in teen titans go but occassionally they put out some genuine bits
Them Soviet boys
...Is it a good show overall?
It started off pretty bad but it actually gets realy good at some points, the movie was even a decent meta commentary on capeshit movies
kewl
Cartoon Network still has that show dominating? I remember that being the case ten years ago after they milked Johnny Test the same way.
Oh hell yeah. Please tell me this puts them in to conflict with famous Santa Claus fan Super-man?