Blackhawk War

Although it's called a war, it was actually an attempt by Blackhawk to lead his people out of southwest Wisconsin to a place where they would be free from U.S. military domination. The direction of their retreat was initially northward to the Wisconsin River and then westward toward the Mississippi River. It was there near where the Wisconsin River enters the Mississippi that many Sauk were massacred.

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