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The Probert Encyclopaedia of Warfare

BLACK HAWK WAR

The Black Hawk War was a conflict between native American Indians and the White settlers. Under the provisions of the treaty with the chiefs of the Sac and Fox Indians at Prairie du Chien, July 15th, 1830, their land east of the Mississippi was ceded to the whites. Black Hawk, a prominent chief, refused to submit to the treaty. In 1831 he made an attack upon some Illinois villages, but was driven off by a force of militia under General Gaines in June of that year. The next spring he returned with a strong force and began to massacre the whites. General Scott marched some United States troops against him. Black Hawk was defeated at the Wisconsin River on July the 21st, 1832, by General Dodge and again, on August the 2nd, by General Atkinson at Bad Axe River. This ended the war.
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