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Black Hawk was at the Battle of Frenchtown, Fort Meigs, and the attack on Fort Stephenson. [10] [11] The United States Army was able to inflict a significant defeat on Tecumseh's Confederacy by killing Tecumseh during the war. Black Hawk despaired over the many killed in the fighting; soon after, he quit the war to return home.
The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis (Fox), and Kickapoos, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, to the U.S. state of Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832.
The Black Hawk War, or Black Hawk's War, is the name of the estimated 150 battles, skirmishes, raids, and military engagements taking place from 1865 to 1872, primarily between Mormon settlers in Sanpete County, Sevier County and other parts of central and southern Utah, and members of 16 Ute, Southern Paiute, Apache and Navajo tribes, led by a local Ute war chief, Antonga Black Hawk. [1]
A wrecked American helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, October 14, 1993. Credit - Scott Peterson/Liaison—Getty Images. Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning 2002 movie Black Hawk Down famously portrayed ...
The military helicopter that collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in a crash that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft, was a UH-60 Black Hawk ...
Antonga, or Black Hawk (born c. 1830; died September 26, 1870), was a nineteenth-century war chief of the Timpanogos tribe in what is the present-day state of Utah.He led the Timpanogos against Mormon settlers and gained alliances with Paiute and Navajo bands in the territory against them during what became known as the Black Hawk War in Utah (1865–1872).
The crew aboard the UH-60 Black Hawk chopper, the 12th Aviation Battalion, is responsible for top-secret evacuation missions meant to whisk top US officials from DC to secure locations in the case ...
Black Hawk, a former passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Black Hawk (steamboat) , a steamboat built around 1850 and operated in California and Oregon Blackhawk (automobile) , an automobile manufactured in 1929 and 1930 by the Stutz Motor Car Company in Indianapolis