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Title: History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Gregg, Thomas, b. 1808. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, C.C. Chapman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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conspicuously in the laterhistory of Illinois, inhabited the northwestern portion of the State.By long residence together and intermarriage they had substan-tially become one people. Drake, in his Life of Black Hawk,speaks of these tribes as follows: The Sacs and Foxes fought theirway from the waters of the St. Lawrence to Green Bay, and afterreaching that place, not only sustained themselves against hostiletribes, but were the most active and courageous in the subjugation,or rather the extermination, of the numerous and powerful Illinoisconfederacy. They had many wars, offensive and defensive, withthe Sioux, the Pawnees, the Osages, and other tribes, some of whichare ranked among the most fierce and ferocious warriors of thewhole continent; and it does not appear that in these conflicts, run-ning through a long period of years, thej were found wanting inthis, the greatest of all savage virtues. In the late war with GreatBritain, a party of the Sacs and Foxes fought under the British
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HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 27 standard as a matter of choice; and in the recent contest between afragment of these tribes and the United States, although defeatedand literally cut to pieces b) an overwhelming force, it is veryquestionable whether their reputation as braves would suffer by acomparison with that of their victors. It is believed that a carefulreview of their history, from the period when they tirst establishedthemselves on the waters of the Mississippi down to the presenttime, will lead the inquirer to the conclusion that the Sacs andFoxes were truly a courageous people, shrewd, politic, and enter-prising, with no more ferocity and treachery of character than iscommon among the tribes by whom they were surrounded, Thesetribes at the time of the Black Hawk War were divided into twentyfamilies, twelve of which were Sacs and eight Foxes. The follow-ing were other prominent tribes occupying Illinois: the Kickapoos,Shawnees, Mascoulins, Piaukishaws, Pottawatomies, Chippewas,and Ott

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