Osceola, also known as Billy Powell (1804 – January 30, 1838), became an influential leader with the Seminole

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 in Florida

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. He was of Creek, Scots-Irish

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 and English

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 parentage, and had migrated to Florida with his mother after the defeat of the Creek in 1814.

Osceola led a small band of warriors in the Seminole resistance during the Second Seminole War

Second Seminole War

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, when the United States

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 tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands.