Dade massacre

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ambush massacre military conflict

The Dade massacre was an 1835 ambush in Florida in which Seminole warriors annihilated a U.S. Army detachment, helping to ignite the Second Seminole War.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Dade Massacre	3
Dade massacre canonical	2
Dade Massacre (context of war)	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ambush ⓘ massacre ⓘ military conflict ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Dade’s Battle ⓘ Dade’s Massacre ⓘ
belligerent	Seminole ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
combatant	Seminole ⓘ United States Army ⓘ
commander	Alligator ⓘ Jumper ⓘ Francis L. Dade ⓘ surface form: Major Francis L. Dade Micanopy ⓘ
commemoratedBy	annual reenactments at Dade Battlefield Historic State Park ⓘ
conflict	Seminole Wars ⓘ surface form: United States–Seminole conflicts
conflictType	battle of the Second Seminole War ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
date	1835-12-28 ⓘ
followedBy	wider outbreak of the Second Seminole War ⓘ
hasAftermath	heightened public attention to the Seminole conflict in the United States ⓘ increased U.S. military commitment in Florida ⓘ
hasCause	resistance of the Seminole to U.S. removal policies ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Antebellum period ⓘ surface form: Antebellum period in the United States
location	Sumter County, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ near present-day Bushnell, Florida ⓘ
memorial	Dade Battlefield Historic State Park ⓘ
memorialLocation	Bushnell, Florida ⓘ
namedAfter	Francis L. Dade ⓘ
numberOfCasualties	only a few U.S. survivors ⓘ over 100 U.S. soldiers killed ⓘ unknown Seminole casualties ⓘ
objectiveOfAttackers	to halt U.S. military movement into Seminole territory ⓘ
partOf	Second Seminole War ⓘ history of Florida ⓘ history of the United States Army ⓘ
precededBy	rising tensions over enforcement of the Treaty of Payne’s Landing ⓘ
relatedTo	Indian Removal policy of the United States ⓘ Treaty of Payne’s Landing ⓘ
result	decisive Seminole victory ⓘ
significance	became a symbol of U.S. losses in the early Second Seminole War ⓘ helped ignite the Second Seminole War ⓘ
target	U.S. Army detachment marching from Fort Brooke to Fort King ⓘ
terrain	flatwoods of central Florida ⓘ pine forest ⓘ
weaponUsed	ambush tactics from cover ⓘ muskets ⓘ rifles ⓘ
year	1835 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Dade massacre
Description of subject: The Dade massacre was an 1835 ambush in Florida in which Seminole warriors annihilated a U.S. Army detachment, helping to ignite the Second Seminole War.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Second Seminole War → significantEvent → Dade massacre ⓘ

Francis L. Dade → notableEvent → Dade massacre ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dade Massacre

Osceola → associatedWithEvent → Dade massacre ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dade Massacre (context of war)

Battle of Withlacoochee → precededBy → Dade massacre ⓘ

Fort Dade → notableEvent → Dade massacre ⓘ

subject surface form: Francis L. Dade

this entity surface form: Dade Massacre

Fort Dade → namedForEvent → Dade massacre ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dade Massacre