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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You think he's being genuine? I thought strokes only affected speech? Do they also affect language when typing on a keyboard?
Afaik strokes happen when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, depriving a region of the brain of oxygen. The resulting damage to the brain results in stuff like paralysis, various kinds of speech impairments, or death. Folks who recover are recovering because that region of their brain is healing or regenerating. As the brain regenerates and people are able to re-learn the skills they lost, they recover. Sometimes. Some folks don't.
As to language - There are so many utterly bizarre ways your ability to use language can be impaired. Some people can think perfectly clearly but the parts of the brain that transmit that information to the mouth, or the fingers, are damaged. Some people just flat out can't form words and make semi-random noises when they try. There are some really weird ones where you've got some spooky stuff in your brain so that you can be answering questions in writing with one hand, without consciouslyy being aware of what you're writing. Brains are extremely weird and, frankly, kind of scary.
At least we recently confirmed that severing the corpus callosum doesn't result in a second, orphaned individual trapped in the dark with no access to the sense organs. that theory was real dark.
Note that I'm just some guy, I don't know about these things in detail and am probably wrong. Neuroscience is very difficult to understand as a lay person at the best of times.
Got ya. Thank you for explaining
Strokes can do all sorts of stuff.
Some times it is the motor function that goes causing people to be able to write but not speak or vise versa.
Other times it is the actual language processing center that gets damaged. That can mean holes in their vocabulary where they have to relearn the words. It can be crossed wires where they have the words and meanings jumbled up. Sometimes it is a combination where the signal to say a word gets misdirected between the language center and the muscle memory so instead of saying "understanding" they say "banana." The speaker knows that it isn't the right word but the word has a corrupted address for the muscle memory command.
My grandma had a bunch of mini strokes that didn't get diagnosed for over a year. She had all these weird seemingly unconnected symptoms off and on for a few weeks. A couple times she got angry and upset that her mouth wouldn't say the words she was thinking and then after she was reminded of what the word sounded like and she would manage to get over it in a few minutes.
Like frank said brains are fucking weird and scary.