A surname or place name, notably Dade County (now Miami-Dade County) in Florida.
From the surname Dade, of uncertain origin but possibly from Old English 'Dada' or a variant of David. Miami-Dade County was named after Major Francis Langhorne Dade, killed in the Second Seminole War.
Major Francis Dade, for whom Miami-Dade County is named, died in the Dade Massacre of 1835, where only three of 110 U.S. soldiers survived a Seminole ambush - making the county name a memorial to military tragedy.
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