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MAJOR
WILLIAM LAUDERDALE CHAPTER The Major William Lauderdale Chapter, NSDAR, was organized on December 3, 1976, in Plantation, Florida. The Chapter was the last of the National Society's Bicentennial Chapters. Our Organizing Regent was Lucy Heidenreich. The Chapter was named for William Lauderdale, a major in the Tennessee Militia. At the direction of President Andrew Jackson, Major Lauderdale led a battalion of Tennessee Volunteers in the Florida Campaign against the Seminole Indians. In March of 1838, during the Second Seminole War, Major Lauderdale's expedition landed at the mouth of New River and constructed a fort. General Thomas Jesup, head of military forces in Florida, decreed that the new post be called "Fort Lauderdale" in honor of the commanding officer. Born in the early 1780s, William Lauderdale died on May 11, 1838,
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while en route to his native Sumner County, Tennessee, from the Florida War.
Major Lauderdale also had distinguished military service in the Creek War and the War of 1812. Web hyperlinks to non-DAR sites are not the
responsibility of the NSDAR, the state organizations, or individual DAR
chapters.
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