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To: Red Badger

The Black Hawk helicopter was named after an Indian chief, not a tribe. Black Hawk was the name of two famous chiefs who were unrelated.

The first Black Hawk led the Sac and Fox tribes in an uprising in Illinois and Wisconsin in 1832—the last Indian war fought east of the Mississippi.

From 1865 to 1872, another Black Hawk, a Ute chief, led the Utes, Navajos, Apaches and Paiutes in a war against Mormon settlers in Utah. Both conflicts are known as the Black Hawk War although the earlier conflict is much better known.


46 posted on 02/03/2020 11:16:31 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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50 posted on 02/03/2020 11:29:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Fiji Hill
The first Black Hawk led the Sac and Fox tribes in an uprising in Illinois and Wisconsin in 1832—the last Indian war fought east of the Mississippi. The second and third seminole war went on into the 1850's.
60 posted on 02/03/2020 11:57:44 AM PST by Vigilantcitizen
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To: Fiji Hill

The 2nd Seminole War in Florida happened in 1835-42, and the 3rd occurred in 1855-58.

Both were after the IL-WI war in 1832 and both East of the Mississippi R.


100 posted on 02/04/2020 12:15:07 AM PST by octex
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