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Rebellion December 28, 1835     
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Osceola's attack
True to form in all things Osceola, this 19th-century engraving of the attack on Wiley Thompason was dramatic -- and largely innacurate. The attack took place outside, not in the officers' mess hall, and the Seminole ambushers outnumbered their opponents.