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The Black Hawk War - Rockford Public Schools

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F For five fi months h in i 1832, 1832<br />

<strong>Black</strong> <strong>Hawk</strong> and his band<br />

of more than 1,600 , Sauk<br />

(Sac), Mesquakie (Fox), and<br />

Kickapoo followers defied<br />

the UU.S. S Army Army, Illinois State<br />

and Michigan Territory<br />

militias, and white settlers<br />

b by attempting tt ti to t return t to t<br />

their summer home in<br />

northwestern Illinois at the<br />

junction of the Mississippi<br />

and Rock rivers.

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