Black Hawk, a famous chief of the Sac and Fox Indians, born in 1767. He joined the British in 1812, and opposing the removal west of his tribe, fought against the United States in 1831-32. He died in 1838. There are Lives by Patterson (1834) and Snelling.
Black Hawk
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 201
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