This is the history of a remarkable nation, the only Indian tribe
that has never officially made peace with the United States.
General Thomas Sidney Jesup admired the Seminoles as
adversaries: "We have, at no former period in our history, had
to contend with so formidable an enemy. No Seminole proves
false to his country, nor has a single instance occured of a first
rate warrior having surrendered." Jesup made those comments
in 1837, and they proved true throughout the Seminole-white
confrontations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.