Some of the more notable Indian wars were: the Northwest Indians, 1790–95 and 1811–13; Seminole Wars in Florida, 1817–18, 1835–42 and 1856; Black Hawk War, 1832; Sioux War, 1862–1867; War of the Plains Indians, 1863–69; Sioux and Cheyenne War of 1876-79; and Apache Wars, 1861-90.
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict fought in 1832 between the United States and Native Americans headed by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.
In 1831 he was ordered to Fort Howard, Wisconsin, and while on this duty he was detached for service as chief medical officer (with rank of major) of the forces operating under General Winfield Scott in the Black Hawk War of 1832.
The John Dowling House is one such mansion, cast in the Classical Revival style, the Dowling House was built within the grounds of the stockade constructed here during the Black Hawk War.
During Lovell's term of office occurred the Black Hawk War and the beginning of the long continued struggle with the Seminoles of Florida.
Shields then joined the Indiana Militia in 1832 to fight in the Black Hawk War and by the fall of the that year, acquired the title of Captain.
In 1832, at the conclusion of the Black Hawk War, the Sac and Fox conceded the eastern section of Iowa and the western section of Illinois.
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One version puts Black Hawk's presence in the tree during the 1790s, while another states it was after the conclusion of the 1832 Black Hawk War and involved a young Lieutenant Jefferson Davis.
He named it after General Edmund P. Gaines, an acquaintance of his noted for his service in the War of 1812, the Seminole Wars and the Black Hawk War.
George Bibb Crittenden (March 20, 1812 – November 27, 1880) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Black Hawk War, the Army of the Republic of Texas, and the Mexican-American War, and was a general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War.
The Sons of the American Revolution chapter in Peoria, Illinois placed a bronze memorial plaque, engraved with his speech to Black Hawk pleading for peace prior to the Black Hawk War, at the supposed burial spot of Senachwine north of present-day Putnam County, Illinois on June 13, 1937.
During the archaeological investigation at the site, Apple River Fort was found to display a nearly identical construction pattern to that of Fort Blue Mounds, another Black Hawk War frontier fort near present-day Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.
Another version of the story held that one day, after his capture following the Black Hawk War, he was being escorted by Lieutenant Jefferson Davis and managed to escape.
Fort Koshkonong, a Black Hawk War fort in Wisconsin sometimes called Fort Atkinson