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Black Hawk: Sauk Warrior

1767 - 1838

Black Hawk, famous Sauk warrior, was born in 1767 at the Sauk town of Saukenuk on the Rock River, located about one mile west of this spot. Black Hawk was not a chief. he was a warrior and leader of a political faction within the Sauk nation. Black Hawk was thirteen years old when American forces destroyed Saukenuk during the American Revolutionary War. Throughout his adult life he militarily opposed American expansion into Sauk territory. During the War of 1812 Black Hawk and other Sauk warriors fought on the side of the British and against the Americans. Known as the British Ban, these warriors twice defeated American forces I this area: at he Battle of Campbell's Island in July 1814 and at the Battle Credit Island in September 1814. The British ultimately were defeated; yet, Black Hawk maintained his political allegiance to them for nearly the rest of his life.

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