Timeline April 1832

Events in April 1832 1

• 1832 Black Hawk War Sauk leader Black Hawk resists removal from Illinois Black Hawk led a band of Sauk, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo people back across the Mississippi River into Illinois in defiance of an earlier removal treaty. The ensuing conflict with United States militia and army forces ended at the Battle of Bad Axe, where most of Black Hawk's followers were killed or captured. The war accelerated the removal of Native American tribes from the Old Northwest.