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Map depicting the border claims made by Iowa and Missouri, and the Sullivan Line. Associate Justice John Catron delivered the unanimous opinion of the court. The state of Missouri alleged that the true border should begin at the "rapids of the Des Moines River," rapids actually on the Des Moines River which were about 9.5 miles (15.3 km) north ...
The Honey War was a bloodless territorial dispute in 1839 between Iowa Territory and Missouri over their border.. The dispute over a 9.5-mile-wide (15.3 km) strip running the entire length of the border, caused by unclear wording in the Missouri Constitution on boundaries, misunderstandings over the survey of the Louisiana Purchase, and a misreading of Native American treaties, was ultimately ...
In 1816, surveyor John C. Sullivan was instructed to survey the Osage territory starting 20 WEST of Fort Clark at the Kansas River and Missouri River confluence. From the north bank of the river opposite Kaw Point in what is today Kansas City Downtown Airport he was instructed to survey a line 100 miles (160 km) straight north and then east to the Des Moines River (the Sac and Fox owned the ...
Historical military map of the border and southern states by Phelps & Watson, 1866. In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union. They were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and after 1863, the new state of West ...
Several portions of Nebraska lie east of the Missouri River, mainly due to flooding and changes in the river's path: DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge near Blair, which borders Iowa. A portion of Iowa is also on the Nebraska side in the same area. McKissick Island near Peru, which borders Missouri. A section of land that borders Iowa, Sloan.
Friends, family and military representatives gather around a plaque that honors Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow during a dedication ceremony, Friday, June 28, 2024, at Fort Liberty.
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The Centralia Massacre was an incident during the American Civil War in which 24 unarmed U.S. Army soldiers were captured and executed in Centralia, Missouri, on September 27, 1864, by a band of men under the command of the notorious Confederate guerrilla leader "Bloody Bill" Anderson.