Black Hawk War

American  

noun

1. a war fought in northern Illinois and present-day southern Wisconsin, 1831–32, in which U.S. regulars and militia with Indian allies defeated the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Chief Black Hawk, attempting to recover lost hunting grounds.

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Example Sentences

For legal help, Bailey contacted an attorney friend there with whom he had served in the Black Hawk War: Abraham Lincoln.

From Washington Times • Feb. 14, 2021

Jefferson Davis served the American people in the military in the Black Hawk War of 1832, after graduating from West Point in 1828.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2016

William Stephen The son who looked the most like his father fought in the Black Hawk War and was a U.S. surveyor of public lands in Illinois before heading to California in the gold rush.

From Time • Dec. 28, 2015

Lincoln served in the Black Hawk War, but freely admitted that the toughest enemy he faced was the mosquitoes.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2012

In his short three-month enlistment during the Black Hawk War in 1832, he never saw combat.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly