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Holata Micco (a Muscogee name translated as Alligator Chief, also spelled Halpatter-Micco, Halbutta Micco, Halpuda Mikko; known in English as Chief Billy Bowlegs or Billy Bolek; c. 1810 – 1859) [1] [2] was a leader of the Seminoles in Florida during the Second Seminole War and was the remaining Seminole's most prominent chief during the Third ...
23 Ιαν 2008 · Holata Micco was a friend of Osceola, the principal Seminole commander during most of the war, and of Osceola’s closest comrades, Wildcat and Alligator, and the Black Seminole leaders Abraham and John Caballo Horse.
Article describes the life and personality of Billy Bowlegs, Seminole chief and warrior who fought against the encroachment of white settlers in the Seminole Wars. Carolyn Thomas Foreman explores the legacy of the man through accounts and documentation from the nineteenth century.
Billy Bowlegs gained distinction as a captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War and his intersectionality with African slaves in America. One of the last Seminole leaders to resist, he eventually moved to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Billy Bowlegs died in 1864.
In Volume II, 8-16, “Halpatter Micco, or Billy Bowlegs,” is described as the son of “Secoffer,” who is often mistakenly identified with the Cowkeeper (see Porter, “Founder of the Seminole Nation,” 364-65, 381-84).
Chief Billy Bowlegs or Billy Bolek was a leader of the Seminoles in Florida during the Second and Third Seminole Wars against the United States.
By the conclusion of the war in 1858, Billy Bowlegs finally agreed to emigrate, taking most of those remaining with him. However, a small band of Seminoles under Sam Jones never left Florida, staying hidden in the Big Cypress Swamp.
