Guerilla Warfare, Unconventional and Successful

American strategy website www.globalsecurity.org/military discusses all of the American army's previous engagements. "The U.S. Army found itself ill prepared to fight a guerilla campaign" (White 47-48) sums up how the US was not ready for this new type of Indian warfare that had never been seen before. This was made by a marine who decided to share how well guerilla tactics work against a conventional army. This is how the Seminole defended their land.

The Seminoles where outnumbered, out gunned, and out matched during the Seminole Wars. Yet they still fought for their freedom and their land until the very end. They had to develop a type of fighting that could hold off extremely large numbers of soldiers with only a few hundred warriors. Seminoles not only used lightning tactics but also terrain tactics as well, each ambush was planned at a place where they could easily escape quickly and with very little casuality. Enabling them to continue the war and still inflict heavy casualities. The only way that the American Army was able to finally defeat them was by using trickery and un-honorable means.

L Whiteast, FirsJohn C.t. "American Military Strategy In The Second Seminole War." GlobalSecurity.org. 2000-2010 GlobalSecurity.org , 27-04-2005. Web. 21 Apr 2010. http://globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1995/WJC.htm .