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#BlackHistoryMonth Spotlight of #BlackSeminole John Horse (Juan Cavallo/Caballo). John Horse is best known for bravely escaping an “impenetrable” and “inescapable” St. Augustine fort, and for uniting Seminoles in the Second Seminole War. He and other Seminoles beat the US army. 
Black and non-Black Seminoles were decimating the US Army, so the US Army presented a false flag of truce to Seminole Chief Osceola, and under this false truce, the US Army kidnapped Osceola and some of his closest confidants, including Juan Cavallo (John Horse), his translator.
They locked them into Fort Marion (Castillo de San Marcos) in St Augustine, FL. This fort was considered impenetrable and unbreachable. However, John Horse and Wildcat, the son of a Seminole Chief, united and escaped from the inescapable fort. John Horse and Wildcat then united
