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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
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
Sioux City (Iowa, United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
Bad Axe (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
Keokuk, Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
United States (United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
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 u
Prairie Du Chien (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
Des Moines River (United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
Kaskaskia (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry black-hawk
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 u