Black Hawk War

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.

Example Sentences

This account of the Black Hawk War is the most trustworthy, complete, and interesting which has been made.

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The tribes in this secluded region were then meditating the outbreak which eventuated the next year in the Black Hawk War.

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Reversing the usual promotion, he went into the Black Hawk War a captain and, through no fault of his own, came out a private.

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He volunteers in the Black Hawk war, and does the State good service in its sorest need.

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Harney had served in the Black Hawk war and also in our war with Mexico.

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