The First Seminole War began in 1817 when troops from Fort Scott attacked the Seminole village of Fowltown in northwest Florida when Chief Neamathla insisted that the soldiers stop trespassing on Indian hunting grounds. General Jackson marched on St. Marks with 800 regulars, 900 Georgia militiamen and a force of Lower Creeks led by mixed blood William MacIntosh. But the Seminoles learned of their approach and vanished into the Florida jungle. General Jackson and his troops then marched to the village of Chief Bolek on the Suwanee River. But once again the Seminoles vanished into the Florida jungle. General Jackson moved westward and captured Fort Pensacola after a three day siege, thus claiming West Florida for the United States. The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and ended in 1842. It was the longest and costliest, and also the last of the US's wars of Indian Removal. After the Third Seminole War of 1856-1858, over 3,000 Seminoles were forcibly removed to territories in western Arkansas and Oklahoma. About 300 Seminole remained in the inhospitable swamps of the Everglades. They were left relatively alone until the development boom of the 1920's onward. Settlers, missionaries and traders entered the jungles and swamps of the Everglades, taking more and more land; soon leaving the Seminoles with barely enough land to hunt upon. With the hunting of animals, cutting down of trees and plowing up of the remaining land, the Seminoles had very little resources with which survive in the rapidly developing world. In order to make enough money to feed their families, the tribe was forced to take up agricultural pursuits, selling native arts and crafts and wrestling alligators for tourists.