In April 1832, despite a treaty signed in 1804, Black Hawk led about 1,000 Sauk and Fox people back to northern Illinois. Black Hawk hoped to forge a military alliance with the Winnebago and other ...

Amateur historian John Gorentz will discuss the little-known Black Hawk War during a free presentation from 12:15 to 1 p.m. at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute on Sunday, March 8. The title of the ...

On August 1-2 of that year, the final confrontation of the Black Hawk War took place just south of the Bad Axe River in the western region of modern day Wisconsin.… On this date in 1832, ...

BLACK HAWK (1767-3 Oct. 1838) was an American Indian chief of the Sauk, and leader of the Black Hawk War against the U.S. in 1832. Born in a Sauk village on Rock River, Ill., near the present day city ...

THE BLACK HAWK WAR.; Abraham Lincoln, ... "In 1832 JOHN DIXON kept the ferry across Rock River, and the latch-string of his hospitable home was never drawn in against the stranger.

Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America By Kerry A. Trask John Macrae/Holt, 368 pages, $27.50 For most Americans, I suspect, the Civil War stands as the defining event of the 19th Century.

On Aug. 27, 1832, Black Hawk and the remainder of his followers surrendered, ending the Black Hawk War. As a result of the war, the Sauk and Meskwaki lost much of their land in Iowa. Legend grows ...

Senior leaders from U.S. Army Sustainment Command shared leadership lessons and bonded during a staff ride where they learned about the Black Hawk War of 1832 near Sparta, Wisconsin, Dec. 12-13.

The CHOLERA EPIDEMIC OF 1832 began in May when an immigrant ship landed at Quebec with cases of Asiatic cholera aboard. ... Engaged to transport soldiers to fight in the Black Hawk War, the boat was ...