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Events on Thursday 5 April 1832 1
1832Black Hawk WarSauk leader Black Hawk resists removal from IllinoisBlack 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.