Seminole Wars Help Establish American Counterrevolutionary Strategy According to Sarkesian, America experienced four distinct conflicts that helped shaped their present day participation and relations when dealing with revolutions/ counter-revolutions. One such conflict was the Seminole Wars, specifically, the Second Seminole War, that found America engaged with small guerrillas of the Seminole Nation in Florida from 1835-1842. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines revolution as "...the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of …showed first 75 words of 1193 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1193 total…of the 1800's, America would find itself once again acquiring territory from Spain, and then attempting to annex that same territory by use of force--oppressing once again, the rightful owners of that land: this time it would be the Filipinos, and like the Seminoles fifty years earlier, the revolution was finally crushed, and America's newfound counterrevolution strategy was enforced; a strategy that would stay its course, for the most part unmolested, until the Vietnam conflict.