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    The attacks at Fort Blue Mounds were two separate incidents which occurred on June 6 and 20, 1832, as part of the Black Hawk War. In the first incident...
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    Fort Blue Mounds, also known as Blue Mounds Fort, was located in Blue Mounds, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The settlement of Blue Mounds was...
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    the clash at Waddams Grove, public confidence in the militia was low. On June 9, 1832, between two attacks that occurred at Fort Blue Mounds, a party of...
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    Battle of Fort Dearborn. A Potawatomi chief named Mucktypoke (Makdébki, Black Partridge), counseled his fellow warriors against the attack. Later he saved...
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  • William S. Hamilton (category Burials at Sacramento City Cemetery)
    arrived at the fort around the same time as Hamilton did - accompanied by U.S. aligned Menominee. Afraid that the fort, like his party at the farm,...
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    2015. "Did You Know?". Soldiers Grove. Retrieved May 23, 2014. 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1913,' Biographical Sketch of T. F. Clancy, pg. 656 "Did You Know?"...
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    raid at Sinsinawa Mound in late June was filled with war-related activity. A series of attacks at Buffalo Grove, the Plum River settlement, Fort Blue Mounds...
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    on the borders of Lake Erie. Black Hawk was at the Battle of Frenchtown, Fort Meigs, and the attack on Fort Stephenson. The United States Army was able...
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    War of 1812. He climbed the ranks of the military, establishing military forts along the Mississippi River and entering the Black Hawk War as a colonel...
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    Jefferson Davis (category Burials at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia))
    of the fort or to reduce it. The commander of the fort, Major Robert Anderson, refused to surrender, and Beauregard began the attack on Fort Sumter early...
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    the mounds were in circulation, typically involving the mounds being built by a race of giants. A New York Times article from 1897 described a mound in...
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    "Misi'nimäk Kimiko Wini'niwuk, 'Michilimackinac People,' near the old fort at Mackinac, Mich." Michillimackinac is also spelled as Mishinimakinago, Mǐshǐma‛kǐnung...
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    including the Treaty of Vincennes, the Treaty of Grouseland, and the Treaty of Fort Wayne. They sold most of their lands to the United States and moved north...
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    eyewitness to be as large as 100 warriors attacked the settler fort at Blue Mounds. Two militiamen were killed in the attack, one of whom was badly mutilated....
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    lead ore. During the 1832 Black Hawk War, a fort was erected at Hamilton's Diggings, which was known as Fort Hamilton. Wiota was first platted in 1836 by...
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    Havana territory is uncertain; very little has been identified in burial mounds. During the Mississippian period (900–1500 CE), galena saw use as body paint...
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    the watch of George Force, a lieutenant who was killed in an attack at Fort Blue Mounds on June 20. Ahead of the main party of militia, a small band of...
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  • victory, the second attack on Fort Blue Mounds on June 20, and the Sinsinawa Mound raid on June 29. The Native Americans were defeated at the Battle of Wisconsin...
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    the Fox, at modern Portage. In 1828 the U.S. Army bought LeRoi's building and built Fort Winnebago at his strategic site - the army's third fort in what...
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    effigy mound-building Late Woodland Period cultures and the successor Oneota culture; they say their ancestors built the thousands of effigy mounds through...
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    4:178–219. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Meskwaki. The 1730 Mesquakie Fort Official Site of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa/Meskwaki...
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    Henry Atkinson (soldier) (category Burials at Cave Hill Cemetery)
    Bullitt-Gwathmey family lot. Fort Atkinson, Iowa, a town in Iowa Fort Atkinson State Preserve, 1840s U.S. Army post in Fort Atkinson, Iowa Fort Atkinson (Nebraska)...
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  • attacks of the Black Hawk War Battle of Stillman's Run Buffalo Grove ambush Plum River raid Indian Creek massacre St. Vrain massacre Attacks at Fort Blue...
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    was recruited to support the garrison at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, known as Fort Jefferson. Henry Dodge was born in Vincennes...
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  • of attacks at Buffalo Grove, the Plum River settlement, Fort Blue Mounds, and various attacks in other places including the war's most famous incident...
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    funded, in part, through a US$160,000 Illinois FIRST grant. Attacks at Fort Blue Mounds "National Register Information System". National Register of...
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    Winfield Scott (category Burials at West Point Cemetery)
    retained control of the military installations at Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens. Scott advised evacuating the forts because an attempted re-supply would inflame...
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    ascending the Mississippi to join us at the head of his brave troops, he met, arrested, and brought along with him to Fort Crawford two United States soldiers...
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    Ferry on June 13, and on June 16, Anderson mustered them out of service at Fort Wilbourn. From June 16 until July 10, Lincoln served as a private in Captain...
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  • massacre Attacks at Fort Blue Mounds Spafford Farm massacre Battle of Horseshoe Bend Battle of Waddams Grove Battle of Kellogg's Grove Attack at Ament's...
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