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The Black Hawk War (April–August 1832) was a brief 1832 conflict, between the United States and Native Americans, led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. It was the last of the Indian wars that took place in the Old Northwest Territory, north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers. It took place primarily in Illinois state and Michigan Territory (now Wisconsin).The conflict was over ownership of land in eastern Illinois. The major battle of the war was fought at the mouth of the Bad Axe River in Southern Wisconsin. Weakened by protracted warfare and motivated by bribes and threats, most tribes could not resist relocation. A few, however, took stands against expulsion and resorted to armed resistance or sought the protection of the courts.The outcome of this war quelled the last Indian resistance to white settlement in the region around Chicago. The famous Sauk leader, Black Hawk, and his thousand followers had been expelled from Illinois in 1831. In April of 1832, Black Hawk led more than 400 warriors and their families back to the Rock River where they planted their corn for the coming year.Hostilities commenced after inexperienced militia attacked an Indian delegation approaching with a white flag. Thereafter, Black Hawk and Indian supporters joined in warfare that provoked the mobilization of about seven thousand American soldiers, bringing the first regular army troops, and the first cholera epidemic, into the Upper Great Lakes. Most of Black Hawk's band were killed trying to flee west. Black Hawk with his son and the Winnebago Prophet, surrendered at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and were imprisoned until the summer of 1833. In that year, Potawatomi ceded the last of their lands in northeastern Illinois. Black Hawk took refuge with the Winnebago, but was later handed over to U.S. forces and temporarily imprisoned in St. Louis. He lived out his life on tribal lands in Iowa and died in 1838 ~ Seventy settlers and soldiers, and hundreds of Black Hawk's band died as a result of the Black Hawk War, which also signaled the end of conflict between settlers and Native Americans in Illinois and Wisconsin ~

The Black Hawk War (April–August 1832) was a brief 1832 conflict, between the United States and Native Americans, led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.  It was the last of the Indian wars that took place in the Old Northwest Territory, north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers. It took place primarily in Illinois state and Michigan Territory (now Wisconsin).The conflict was over ownership of land in eastern Illinois. The major battle of the war was fought at the mouth of the Bad Axe River in Southern Wisconsin. Weakened by protracted warfare and motivated by bribes and threats, most tribes could not resist relocation. A few, however, took stands against expulsion and resorted to armed resistance or sought the protection of the courts.The outcome of this war quelled the last Indian resistance to white settlement in the region around Chicago. The famous Sauk leader, Black Hawk, and his thousand followers had been expelled from Illinois in 1831. In April of 1832, Black Hawk led more than 400 warriors and their families back to the Rock River where they planted their corn for the coming year.Hostilities commenced after inexperienced militia attacked an Indian delegation approaching with a white flag. Thereafter, Black Hawk and Indian supporters joined in warfare that provoked the mobilization of about seven thousand American soldiers, bringing the first regular army troops, and the first cholera epidemic, into the Upper Great Lakes. Most of Black Hawk's band were killed trying to flee west. Black Hawk with his son and the Winnebago Prophet, surrendered at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and were imprisoned until the summer of 1833. In that year, Potawatomi ceded the last of their lands in northeastern Illinois.  Black Hawk took refuge with the Winnebago, but was later handed over to U.S. forces and temporarily imprisoned in St. Louis. He lived out his life on tribal lands in Iowa and died in 1838 ~ Seventy settlers and soldiers, and hundreds of Black Hawk's band died as a result of the Black Hawk War, which also signaled the end of conflict between settlers and Native Americans in Illinois and Wisconsin ~