Google it and there will probably be something. As in the other two or three Seminole Wars, it was a popgun skirmish in a process that lasted several decades. The Florida peninsula was undeveloped and swampy, but its security was necessary to protect as much of the Caribbean littoral as possible when the US had virtually no navy.
British "agents" had previously stirred up incitement against American interests through both Indians and Maroons after the War of 1812. Spain sold Florida to the US around 1820, but the natives were restless.
Edited by pikeshot1600 - 27-Mar-2008 at 14:32