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    The Nauvoo Legion was a state-authorized militia of Nauvoo, Illinois, United States from February 4, 1841 until January 29, 1845. Its main function was...
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  • Nauvoo Legion is the militia for the city of Nauvoo, Illinois. Nauvoo Legion may also refer to: The Utah Territorial Militia, also called the "Nauvoo...
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    The Nauvoo Expositor was a newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois, that published only one issue. Its publication, and the destruction of the printing press ordered...
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    militias was the Danite. The first military unit was the Nauvoo Legion, the city militia for Nauvoo, Illinois. The Danites were a fraternal organization founded...
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  • The history of Nauvoo, Illinois, starts with the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes who frequented the area, on a bend of the Mississippi River in Hancock County...
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    Utah Territorial Militia (category Nauvoo Legion)
    known as the Nauvoo Legion was the territorial Militia for the United States Territory of Utah. A predecessor known as the Nauvoo Legion was formed as...
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    Killing of Joseph Smith (category Nauvoo Legion)
    Nauvoo municipal court. Smith declared martial law and called out the Nauvoo Legion. After briefly fleeing Illinois, Smith received a personal statement...
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    Joseph Smith (category Nauvoo Legion)
    controlled Nauvoo's civil government, the city guaranteed religious freedom for its residents. The charter also authorized the Nauvoo Legion, a militia...
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    Smith's Assistant President and first commander of the Nauvoo Legion, was elected mayor of Nauvoo in 1841. He was replaced by Smith himself in 1842. After...
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  • appointed aide-de-camp to Joseph Smith in his capacity as leader of the Nauvoo Legion. In May 23 1844, Jackson provided testimony before a grand jury that...
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    Utah War (category Nauvoo Legion)
    hindering and weakening them. Daniel H. Wells, Lieutenant-General of the Nauvoo Legion, instructed Major Joseph Taylor: On ascertaining the locality or route...
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    Illinois for calling out the Nauvoo Legion contrary to the orders of the Governor of Illinois. Bainbridge Kirtland Far West Nauvoo While in New York, Smith...
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    Farmington, Utah, where he married, became a military leader in the Nauvoo Legion in Utah and was distinguished in campaigns to stop Indian depredations...
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    John C. Bennett (category Nauvoo Legion)
    Latter Day Saint movement, who acted as mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois, and Major-General of the Nauvoo Legion in the early 1840s. John Cook Bennett was born...
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    the old Nauvoo Legion uniforms. This new Utah based militia would also be referred to as the Nauvoo Legion. Some of the Utah-based Nauvoo Legion would carry...
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    establishment of a university, and the creation of a militia unit known as the "Nauvoo Legion." Smith dreamed of industrial projects, and even received a revelation...
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    Mountain Meadows Massacre (category Nauvoo Legion)
    Church) involved with the Utah Territorial Militia (officially called the Nauvoo Legion) who recruited and were aided by some Southern Paiute Native Americans...
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    elections. Smith also commanded a quasi-public military force, the Nauvoo Legion, that with 2,500 men was almost one-third the size of the U.S. Army...
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    assassination, had served as mayor of Nauvoo, Major General of the Nauvoo Legion, and Chancellor of the University of Nauvoo. Bennett implicated Rockwell in...
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    Mormon militia known as the "Armies of Israel,", which pre-dated the Nauvoo Legion by eight years, to protect his community. Some historians have alleged...
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    the Civil War. In 1850, Salt Lake City sent out a force known as the Nauvoo Legion and engaged the Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.: 71  Disputes...
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  • persecution and to further their creed, for example the Hussites, the Mormon Nauvoo Legion and the Mahdi Army in Iraq; because of their nature, such militias are...
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    assassination, had served as mayor of Nauvoo, Major General of the Nauvoo Legion, and Chancellor of the University of Nauvoo. Bennett made a number of controversial...
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    of Davis County, Utah, Mormon hero of the Utah War, General in the Nauvoo Legion and the first LDS stake president in Arizona. George Stoneman, Civil...
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    Black Hawk War (1865–1872) (category Nauvoo Legion)
    cohabitation. The Nauvoo Legion refused at first to comply and things came to a head at the 4th of July Parade in 1871 where the Legion had always marched...
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    State of Deseret (category Nauvoo Legion)
    outlawed. The LDS Church was incorporated and a militia, based on the Nauvoo Legion, was formed. The legislature initially formed six counties, which covered...
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    Daniel H. Wells (category Nauvoo Legion)
    Smith; Wells defended the city and fought as a Lieutenant General of the Nauvoo Legion, and also provided shelter for evacuees. Wells was not baptized into...
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  • British Legion (1860) British contingent of the above Nauvoo Legion, a significant militia in early Mormon history List of American Civil War legions, both...
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  • declared martial law in Nauvoo and called out the Nauvoo Legion, an organized city militia of about 5,000 men, to protect Nauvoo from outside violence....
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    Deseret, reconstructed A cavalry guidon of the Utah-era version of the Nauvoo Legion According to most descriptions, the flag of the State of Deseret was...
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