On this date in 1817 a group of supply boats, led by Lt. R. W. Scott, were heading up the Apalachicola River bound for Fort Scott when they were attacked by Seminole warriors. This resulted in the deaths of thirty men, six women, and four children on this date. The attack was in retaliation for the U.S. attack on a Seminole village in southern Georgia, known as Fowltown, a week earlier. Outraged, the U.S. government ordered General Andrew Jackson to begin attacking Seminole villages, some of which were in Spanish-held Florida, resulting in what would later be called the First Seminole War
