 Hey guys, Shea Bear 1000 here. Today behind me is the battlefield That's where the Seminole Indians had fought the government the US Army and There was a slaughter in there and we'll tell you more about that here in just a moment Stick around won't you? Guys, we are inside the Dade battlefield Monkey had a patient what 19 minutes from here 13 miles Yeah, so and it was her last patient of the day So I came with her today so we can just stop here since we was down this way anyhow So but this is pretty interesting stuff here This tells you a little bit about it I can read it to you This is that as you look around this tranquil setting dominated by ancient live oaks Reservoir resurrection ferns palmettos and long leaf pines with songbirds and woodpeckers Flitting lately among the leaves it can be difficult to imagine that more than a hundred and eighty years ago This was the scene of bloodshed terror and tragedy on December 28th, 1835 a U.S. Army Column consisting of a hundred and seven officers and men under the command of Is that brevet major Francis? Longhorn Dade so we that's the Dade Dade battlefields named after him was ambushed at this place by hundred eighty seminal warriors, which were the Indians led by Mekinopi alligator and you and jumper in a battle that lasted from early morning until mid-afternoon All but three soldiers including all of the officers were killed It was a defeat that shocked the nation struck at the heart of the army and led directly to the longest and most costly Indian war in American history for the Seminoles what what came to be known as Dade's battle was a resounding victory only three warriors lost their lives and the attacks sent a clear message to an American government Bent on a policy of Indian removal that the Seminole people Would not give up their homes without a fight. It's long-term consequences. However, we're devastating After seven years of warfare most Florida Seminoles had been killed or captured and sent off to make new lives in The Indian territory far away in an unknown land now called Oklahoma, hmm, that's interesting. I did not know that see they didn't teach us this and now in history and Unconquered remnant survived deep within the Everglades the ancestors of today's proud Seminole and miss mcsukie moscowsky tribes mcsukie tribes of Florida We invite you inside the Visitor Center, which we're going in now But it's beautiful out here you can hear the birds chirping So we're going to go check there's a visitor center right there we stepped in for a minute monkey changed her clothes So we're going to go in the visitor center now When the army came back as you can see this little table over there it's a reproduction of the map the army And also Marks the ground in archaeological days. So where we have our breastworks is where the breastworks were in the battle It's not near this spot. This is exactly I was right. So not a little bit historical. Yeah All right. Yes. Oh, thank you very much. I have pleasure sir. Man. Thank you so much. Thank you If you'd like I can give you a little talk about the weapons that seems like I'm out here Sure. All right. Well, like I tell people the like anything it was a tool and The tool was designed for what it was designed for to be used the way it was designed the military weapon of the day was the musket The American soldiers were training with the musket Because they were training to fight in Europe at that time in history. We didn't get along with England We didn't get along with France. We didn't get along with Spain We were having trouble with met with Mexico the Alamo is only going to be two months after this battle So there was the soldiers were training for European warfare because they figured they were going to fight a European war Which in Europe you don't have this type of terrain you get out into open areas So that's where they used to line up on each side of the field shoot at each other and so forth So that's what this weapon is designed for it's not designed for accuracy It's designed for volume of fire. I want to get a lot of bullets down the field At 75 yards, I can hit you where I want you want to hit you Hundred yards. I'm going to hit you but I can't promise where after that probably not going to hit you at all It'd be very lucky if I do But this has what it gives up for its accuracy it Gains in other things the way they fired these weapons in the day if you look at our little soldier guy You can see he was wearing his coat during the battle Which was actually a big disadvantage because his cartridges were underneath his coat He had to reach back here to get his cartridges And what you would do and some of the expressions you might have heard about battles or excuse me may have heard come from these guns This is called a prison So I'm going to open that up. I'm going to reach around. I'm going to grab my cartridge Cartridge is paper with gunpowder and a bullet in it I'm going to rip the paper open with my teeth to be in the army You had to have two teeth one upon one up above the other and say you can rip it Pour some of the gunpowder into the pan close the prison roll them up skit over Put the rest of the gunpowder down the barrel Put the paper down the barrel put the bullet down the barrel and then ram it down with the rammer Now of course you're doing all of this while the other guy is shooting at you So now should everything go right? This is what's going to happen right now. I'm on half cock That's the safety the gun should not fire on half cock. You've heard the expression going off half cocked Okay, so We go to full cock and when we pull the trigger We've got a piece of flint here when flint hits steel and makes a spark On this thing what it's going to do is it's going to flip that open and make the spark With any luck some of that sparks going to fall in the pan where we will get a flash in the pan There's a little hole drilled in the side of the barrel Hopefully some of that spark will go through the hole and ignite the gun and the gun goes off There's always a delay Sometimes it's actually as much as a couple of seconds it can be up to three minutes Okay, so which makes these things a little dangerous and which makes a flash in the pan a dangerous situation You don't know when the gun's going to go off after you pull the trigger The other disadvantage of this type of either one of these is Some of that burning gunpowder can be down that barrel when you pour your next charge down Okay, which could set off the gunpowder in your hand. That's why when you see in motion pictures You'll see the guy with this You'll have a powder horn and they'll open it up with his teeth and go like this not a chance Not a chance because first you can't measure how much you're putting down there Second if that there is a hot spark down there You're going to blow your hand off if you're lucky if that's as far as it goes But um a good soldier he can crank out at least four rounds a minute Okay, I know a lady who can do five. She always beats us in every competition. She can do five rounds She's good But remember we're not worried about how many rounds we can get off Oh, excuse me how accurate our rounds are we want to get a lot of rounds downfield So that's the advantage because this is a smooth bore. I can almost drop the musket ball down there Also, it has another advantage If uh, it starts getting so dirty. I can't get the musket ball down there I can throw a fist full of buck shot down there because it's a shotgun Basically, it's a 10 gauge shotgun is what I've got here So this has those advantages, of course it does have the accuracy disadvantage The natives were using their hunting weapons Now they were very very good shots because they had to be gunpowder and lead Was hard to come by for these guys so they couldn't afford to miss So they were very very good shots. They got it through trade. They got all this stuff through trade Some of the trade was illegal, but they were doing it. Anyway, like I tell people It's illegal to trade in drugs, but people do it even today so but um The firing mechanism is exactly the same, but being that it's a smaller caliber It's not using as much gunpowder So it has that advantage Plus it's got the grooves in the barrel. It's rifled rifle bore exactly so But the disadvantage to the rifle bore is getting that bullet down there All right, because it's got it's catching those grooves as it goes down What spins it like a football when it rains out, exactly Yeah, and you've thrown a football, you know, if you can get that nice spin on it It's nice and straight nice and far Same thing with this you get that spin on it. It's a lot more accurate. I can I can I bullseye At about 200 yards and I'll grant you that it was probably most of that's pretty pure luck Yeah, but I can hit you at 300 yards and I can't promise where but I can a human size target. I can hit it 300 yards and And like I say these guys because it was their hunting weapon. I'm sure they were just as accurate with it so they That's their advantage But the disadvantage that comes with this Is black powder is very dirty and the more you shoot the more clogged up the weapon becomes After about 10 12 shots, you're actually to the point where you'd have to clean this thing because you just can't get the bullet down there anymore So what uh, what happens is you've got a very very expensive club Okay, in fact, that's one of the reasons that this was put on there was to protect it But um, so that's the disadvantage and it's also a little slower because I'm jamming that bullet down It's three rounds per minute on average these guys are going to get off Because you got to remember in a battle. I don't care who you are. You're nervous. You're shaking or everything like that So that's going to slow you down a little bit too And like you said, you know, you're trying to hunker down and load that weapon while Well, the other guys are wisdom pass. You're here exactly and to the natives in the battle. They weren't stupid They knew these guys been about about a hundred yards was their effective range They could hit you at 200 yards so they stayed out of range of the rifle accuracy range rifle Or excuse me the musket This is a six pound cannonball. Okay, you know, I'll let you hold on to it. Be careful. Let's get some heft Now that's solid shot Yeah And that it was designed To basically knock things down put holes in things put it in You know if you're on a ship or something or you've got a fortress it really wasn't used Effectively anti personnel But uh, they would skip shot it. That's one thing they would try to do skip it across the ground That's a good way if you if you guys were lined up in front of you get a few But again the natives weren't stupid. They didn't stand in front of the cannon All right So what they were trying to do was hit the trees and get the splinters to cause damage. These were artillery soldiers Okay Dave major dade was an infantry officer Most of his small contingent of infantry soldiers and he Went down right in the beginning of the battle So to be in artillery in those days you actually were the smarter guys who were in artillery because you had to have been educated You've got to be able to do math. You've got to be able to do geometry and all that stuff It wasn't like they were stupid. It's just they weren't trained for the kind of battle that they were found themselves in So but as I point out this was found Right around here We can't guarantee 100 but it makes pretty good sense. This was fired during the battle And you just held on to something so it could be all authentic Yes, and this guy some soldier held on to in the last few moments of his life Yeah, I mean because why would that be out here? You know, he's going to put it there and hope someone may find it Yeah, you know, but yes So Yes, it's pretty Pretty unique that we have this. These are usually very hard to right. You don't see them very often By the civil war the firing mechanism has changed on the gun right now in the 1830s They have developed a new type of ignition system for the gun And it's driving me insane as I told the other people I can't remember the guy's name. I should He was from Scotland and he loved bird hunting, but the problem was in Scotland It's so wet that the gunpowder in the prison always got wet and then the gun wouldn't fire So he developed, uh, you know the paper caps you played with them when you were a kid He developed that idea They went through a bunch of different ideas a bunch of different little changes until finally they came up with this little Copper cap with fulminate of mercury in it The the lock is almost the same Except they've replaced this with a little nipple to put the cap on and this has been replaced with a hammer And that led the way to where you could finally get like colonel cold inventing his cold revolver Because now you didn't have to have one of these big bulky things on it. You could just use the hammer to hit those caps So that's what led to that. Of course, that's going to lead to automatic weapons and everything else They were known as a repeating rifle when the automatics. Yes. Yeah, in fact The army being the army was very slow. The henry rifle was out was was available during the civil war and they were actually People who carried it, but they they they uh, it was privately owned. They purchased it themselves Because the army felt the same reason they didn't use the gatling gun was the idea was We're going to waste a lot of ammunition just because they're going to be keep firing too fast So let's slow down that rate of fire by still making them use a muzzle loader you know Yeah, they thought they would take their time more Right, you know as to Well same way hunt and I would rather use a single shot. Oh, yeah Then you know because I will take my time more. I've got one shot. You've got that one I've hunted with these I've hunted with those and you're absolutely right What really gets you is If you've ever I don't know if you've ever hunted with uh with a flintlock. No, I've hunted with those Before with the flintlock the flint. Yeah, as you know You know, you get that big flash when you pull the trigger. Yeah, but you've got to keep that eye open Because you got to track that animal. That's right. Yeah, so That's what I tell people. I can take a deer with a bow a lot easier than I can with this. Oh, yeah, absolutely I'm the same way. Yeah, yeah That uh, if you've taken deer with that, I think to me you've earned some bragging rights. Yeah, absolutely Okay, any questions if you have any Covered everything. Thank you so much. My pleasure. Where are you from by the way? First canoe This in june of 1964 this canoe was found in the Withlacoochee River. Oh, wow About one mile west of the old fort king road It was believed to be over 125. It is believed to be over 125 years old And is made from a cypress log 20 feet long 20 inches wide and 10 inches deep evidence of of use of the auger foot ads and other Uh, white man's tools indicates that this canoe was probably built by us soldiers Wow and ads is something like an act. That's cool, right? Imagine finding that awesome And this is a cool diorama here. I know there's some glare, but do you see this there's some muskballs There's the paper cartridges he was talking about if you would rip open with your teeth That's a musket toy Right there And there's some flint That you would put Right in there. That's the flint and once it scrapes down Onto that metal. That's what what would cause the spark so that flint Flint napping so they would like use other pieces of rock To nap that to break them off so they could get them to fit in there and that's what Flint napping is or so I'm told not that I know anything about it. Isn't that something? Took a long time just uh, you'd have to move quickly Yeah, like he said you're scared. You're shaking. Yeah Yeah, look at that. Isn't that something? Yeah, that is cool from this No, we're about 55 minutes. Yeah, 50 minutes. Yeah Well, maybe not even now. We're not that far from about 45 minutes. I think about 45 minutes. Yeah History like this, you know, right a little bit more fun There's a buckle. These are old buttons probably alfina forms These are old plates. Um, they're called rifle butt plates They would go on the end on the butt of the rifle that goes up against your shoulder. There's a fastener And this is some lead shot also known as buck shot As the gentleman was explaining You can put that down into a smooth bore barrel Rifle you can grab a handful of that and put it down in there And that scatters out So we also call our shotguns up north because we're Yankees We call them scatter guns because you can miss something by foot and still hit it Because you got a bunch of them spreading out and the farther away you are the more But that it would spread out Part of a container about what your gun stuff Okay bear There you come. Let's read about this one Um This 1816 musket typical of guns used in the second seminal war socket bayonet which is That right there that would go on to the end of where the barrel would stick out And uh, that was typical of the second seminal war period Uh the sword with a brass eagle head That's up here That's brass if you polish that up, which you would never want to do it would look like gold We don't know what brass looks like but for those of you that don't Uh Popular during the american federalist pissed uh, pissed it. Yeah Federalist period it was probably used by an officer rather than a common soldier because the common soldiers Didn't have this ornate Um ends on them and stuff. That's really ornate And uh, it would just have like a just a guard around there and possibly even a steore copper guard Rather than the the brass The seminal was used to play this game And uh, we we play some of our games like this to this day Yes, it is Huh going into night vision. Yeah take a couple still images. All right This is where The battle was And they died And they died Yeah, short and sweet short and sweet. Yeah This is where the battle was and they died. So what's going on with my camera, babe? Um, same thing as yesterday When we was at the tower. Yeah, it's unresponsive. I got it taking still images now, but as soon as I put it on to To video It's not responding It's not doing anything and once you click it to hit record Then it becomes unresponsive. You got to pull the battery out and reset it Now yesterday it started working fine as soon as we got to the truck Yeah, so let's see what happens today. Yeah, and I used it inside So it was working inside. Yeah So And this is our newest one Yeah Yeah, there's the wind again Yeah Wow Isn't that cool seminal wind they call it. Yeah See it took still images. Yeah, it took still images. Oh well See I took a couple in night vision Because it is a spectrum camera. So when you do that in the daytime, it's taking different spectrums of light photos And you always take at least two in succession So, you know if you see something if you get something in there and it's in two or three photos, you know It's nothing but if you get in like within one second of each other and it's in one frame and not another Then it could be something But yeah, see it's it's you know Wow Yeah, and we found out yesterday that there was a guy that was killed not far from the store that we were at Right. Yes. That's part of the ghost story. Yeah Oh Stay tuned for that Can't ruin it And then it won't shut off it will not respond once you hit the record button to start Oh, no See It's it's not responding. It's not doing anything Nothing did that yesterday. Yeah, but as soon as we got out to the truck it started working fine Yes, and I checked it before we came at the truck before we went into the visitor center I checked it and it checked out fine. Everything was working We've tried two different batteries. I got third battery, but I know it's not the battery Both batteries are in the green, but so it's not a battery causing it. No, it's not a battery issue. It's not a memory card issue So What is it babe? something spooky I don't know it just seems like whenever we get around someplace like this this thing don't want to work No, and I bought it for that. So if it don't want to work, I mean, it's kind of useless. Right, right I got a 200 dollar picture taking camera Yeah But we'll have to see when we get back to the truck if it works or not. Alrighty Here we go. We're gonna go down this path and see what we can see Stay tuned Oh, what's happening now, babe? Okay I've got this Voice recorder All right Still got CISO on the back of it Um Put new batteries in this thing last night to do some EVP sessions out here, right? Because I knew it was coming here today And here's the power switch. Can you see that? Yep It's off Right Now I'm gonna flip it on It's dead. It's dead Hmm and my camera won't work And the camera's not working It's a new one. It's only a couple months old. Yeah And everything was charged because we planned to do this today So how do you feel about yesterday when you told me You got too much camera equipment? I said you can never have enough. You said that's too much Well, he was bringing all this stuff and I thought we have to walk like two miles to the middle of nowhere It doesn't matter. You can always tell him to take a break. Right. The thing of it is Is this good thing we had the third camera yesterday, right? Yeah Which we do not have today because she was on my ass about bringing too much stuff Now she's wanting that third camera and it's 45 minutes away from here. Yeah, let's try this one Okay, this one's on. Uh-huh. This one's working. Oh good Both batteries are out of the same pack in both of these And they both kicked on last night. That's for brand new batteries. Yeah, they're brand new. They came out of the same pack Yeah, this one went dead as soon as I turned it on it lit up shut off. This one's still on Okay, are we gonna try something? Yeah Is there someone standing out here with us? Is it jumper? Or alligator? Or date is there someone standing out here with us? Is it jumper? or alligator or date We need to do it down this way more. Um What is that the battery? I'm trying to get it on this camera The battery is down almost a half percent. Oh geez Look at that. Uh-huh Wow Try it again There's the wind as soon as this wind goes by Wow Outside If you're trained to hear and you can a lot of good EVP specialists can pick stuff out And that's also since a ghost a spirit does not have a voice box. They can't actually speak They have to make sounds out of what's around them, right? You follow me like a leaf rustling They can make that they can uh You know turn that into what may sound like something to try to communicate with you Maybe the wind see well now we got Yeah, we got a tractor running over here They're mowing we're going to go mow Is there any seminal warriors out here? Or any united states Soldiers picked up Mm-hmm. That's why I like the other one you can put your You can uh The other one you can listen in real time. You can put your headphones on And ask questions if you catch an EVP you can hear Is there any seminal warriors out here? Or any united states Soldiers Okay Off we go Wow, right Yeah Did you explain to them? No This is where One of the officers fell right here. He died right here in that very spot Oh, you need to put your box on there I don't have my box. I got a voice recorder Yeah, so in this area, you know is where this battle happened and uh Only three seminals were killed and five injured The second phase of the battle. Yeah the second phase Which that's when they went around see the battle was actually ever about noon, but at about two See at about 2 p.m. Most of the force of 108 men Had been killed The wounded were dispatched by the enemy After the battle ended that means they went around To anyone that was living or breathing and either cut their throats shot them They killed them as they laid there dying. So those two got very lucky Three Yeah, there's there is three three men survived Yeah, yeah, so this is lieutenant mud. He fell here He was killed right here Okay, so What happened? Sorry about the train in the background The scene of ambush Which is where we're at um Remain deserted for seven weeks finally on february 20th 1838 I think I said six but I thought it was 1838 when that 1836 Okay, an expedition under general gains Arrived here identified the bodies and gave them proper barrel with military rights placing officers bodies on the east side of the trail and the Enlisted men and two graves within the What is that read out read out? The small cannon was retrieved from a nearby pond in which the Seminoles had thrown it They mounted it Muzzled down as a monument to the dead Almost six years later on august 15th 1842 The officers and men of the army contributed funds to pay for a second Interment and dade silent command Now rests in the national cemetery at st. Augustine That call eerie So i'm guessing this is another officer up here. Let's go check this out I got to keep shutting this off because i'm trying to preserve battery like well I'll keep it rolling for a minute Oh, here we go. Look Right here is where major dade fell So major dade and also the county dade county named after him, right? Um, this this was the head haunch of he was I believe the first of fall wasn't he? Yes, because they came into here, of course all this stuff wasn't here it all looked like that And like that so when they was traveling see this was the road. Yeah, this was the road that we're traveling on And he was hit here. He was the first one to go down yeah Very very interesting sad Eerie, but there and then that guy fell and then the other guy fell down that yeah, and then you know all the other men Were down from here on people were were killed their bodies laying everywhere. Yeah Unbelievable so we're standing where he died Yes He he he was killed right here. I'm guessing he may have been shot off a horse Because usually the officer rode the horses so He was shot right in this area, but this is where his body was So we have another placard here. I'll read to you Suddenly Men reeled and fell to a deadly fire poured upon them from behind the trees and palmettos Half of major By the way that fire, honey. I was teasing you It's gunfire is what they're talking about I was teasing her about a gas line Anyway Half of major dates command lay dead or wounded major date and captain Fraser were killed nearby which we just came from Up that way. You can see one of their that's captain Fraser's right there is His monument where he fell And three of the six surviving officers were wounded those men Remaining after the first onslaught sought cover from which they might return to fire after several rounds From their cannon the Indians withdrew a short distance The soldiers hastily threw together a low read out or read out whatever it's like that little little thing We showed you at the beginning Of logs Cared for their wounded and collected ammunition from the fallen so This area we're standing in right here was all just littered with bodies, you know Okay, let's move on. Okay. This structure here guys. You've heard me trying to pronounce. I don't know if it's read out or read out Um, this is what they have cut down When the battle was getting fierce Um, of course, this is not the actual one, but this is what they would have done they Excuse me, they cut down the trees and they made the they took these logs And this is what they were hiding in Trying to take cover from fire And they would have been firing like through there and they would have been laying down real low So that's what that's what they would have made was something similar to this You know may have been bigger may have been smaller, but this gives you an idea Of what it was for It's a reproduction Yeah, see right here tells you on the on the sign here you know Constructed this is of course a reproduction but By the last remaining soldiers in dade's command before they were vanquished Excuse me by a superior force of seminal warriors on this spot December 28 1835 so this is the spot where they built it So they was coming our direction down this path We just walked down where you saw the the falling officers Monuments they come down here and right here in this spot is Where they would have built one of these and also After the battle was over the second onslaught at 2 p.m. The seminars went around and finished off any of the other soldiers that were breathing or may still have been alive And they would have done it right here This is where the rest of them has been killed right in here In this very spot Now this sign is telling us that it was intentionally left on mode To more closely resemble Natural appearance at the time of dade's battle. So this is the stuff guys That they were crawling through and laying in and bleeding and and uh, I mean, you know, if I got down inside in there You would never see me And them indians man they they could get down in there and they were laying down and then you know on on You know the command then they just started firing you would never see them You couldn't see someone laying in there. No, you know, right, huh? No And you know, I mean and and then all the trees that were here because like I said, this is this all wasn't here All this property here. There was no roads over there. No railroad tracks. All this property Looked just like that right there And uh, we crossed a couple bridges over there. They weren't there. I mean if there was water in them It was december could have been you know Uh, you know, they had to trudge through that stuff, you know, it's it's just You know what they had to do it's just amazing Okay, guys Hope you enjoyed this video You know of a little bit of history down here in florida of the seminals and uh, what happened with with the uh, You know the u.s. Government and the seminals and the battles somewhat of uh that took place It's just it just amazes me of some of the things, you know that people had to go through You know to fight for their lives and for their, you know for their land like the seminals But eventually the seminals they were defeated, but So anyway guys, thanks again for watching. I appreciate it And I'm gonna say she bear 1 000 to met the man legend. I'm gone for now. Bye. Bye guys. Take care fucking way Okay, so monkey's camera. We was having problems with through the whole time Can you see that in there is now working? Okay, so Monkey's camera. We was having problems with through the whole time Can you see that in there? Yeah Is now working As soon as we get in the chart we were right over here About 40 feet Yeah, and she tried this one again, and it wouldn't work. I got in the truck Turned it on same as yesterday as soon as we got by the truck. It started working It's not weird And you guys seen I showed them, you know that it wasn't working. It wasn't responding Nope, it wasn't working. Now it's working. I turned it off battery level low Hey guys Never mind Okay guys, I hope you enjoyed this video of I know but