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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Investment of Fort Donelson -the naval operations-attack of the enemy-assaulting the works-surrender of the Fort (search)
Black Hawk
(Ma-ka-tae-mish-kia-kiak), a famous Indian: born in Kaskaskia, Ill., in 1767.
He was a Pottawattomie by birth, but became a noted chief of the Saes and Foxes.
He was accounted a brave when he was fifteen years of age, and soon afterwards led expeditions of war parties against the Osage Indians in Missouri and the Cherokees in Georgia.
He became head chief of the Sacs when he was twenty-one years old (1788). Inflamed by Tecumseh and presents from the British agents, he joined the British in the War of 1812-15, with the commission of brigadier-general, leading about 500 warriors.
He again reappeared in history in hostilities against the white people on the Northwestern frontier settlements in 1832.
In that year eight of a party of Chippewas, on a visit to Fort Snelling, on the west banks of the upper Mississippi, were killed or wounded by a party of Sioux.
Four of the latter were afterwards captured by the commander of the garrison at Fort Snelling and delivered up
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burnt corn Creek, battle of. (search)
Burnt corn Creek, battle of.
Peter McQueen, a half-blood Creek Indian of Tallahassee, was a fiery leader among the war party of that nation, wherein civil war was raging in the spring of 1813.
This war Tecumseh had stirred up, and the whole Creek nation had become a seething caldron of passion.
A British squadron in the Gulf held friendly intercourse with the Spanish authorities at Pensacola.
To that port McQueen and 300 followers, with pack-horses, went to get supplies and convey them to the war party in the interior.
That party was inimical to the white people settled in that nation, and it was the duty of the military in that region to protect the latter.
This protection was not furnished, and the white inhabitants and the peace party among the Creeks prepared to defend themselves.
Col. James Caller called out the militia to intercept McQueen.
There was a prompt response, and Caller set out with a few followers.
He marched towards the Florida frontier, joined on the wa
Clay, Green 1757-1826
Military officer; born in Powhatan county, Va., Aug. 14, 1757.
Before he was twenty years old he
Green Clay. emigrated to Kentucky, where he became a surgeon, and laid the foundation of a fortune.
He represented the Kentucky district in the Virginia legislature, and was a member of the Virginia convention that ratified the national Constitution.
He also assisted in framing the Kentucky constitution in 1799. Mr. Clay served long in the Kentucky legislature.
In the spring of 1813 he led 3,000 Kentucky volunteers to the relief of Fort Meigs (q. v.); and, being left in command of that post, he defended it against an attack by British and Indians under General Proctor and Tecumseh.
He died in Kentucky, Oct. 31, 1826.
Clay, Henry
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Combs , Leslie 1794 -1881 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Econochaca, battle at. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison , William Henry 1773 -1812 (search)