Tag: Black Hawk War
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An Exhausted and Demoralized Sauk Leader, Black Hawk, Surrenders After Defeat in the Black Hawk War. August 27, 1832.
Image: Black Hawk, the Sauk war chief and namesake of the Black Hawk War in 1832. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, after capitulating to the Americans at the end of the Black Hawk War, an exhausted and demoralized Sauk leader, Black Hawk, surrendered to Indian agent Joseph Street at Fort Crawford (present-day Prairie…