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The Trail of Death was declared a Regional Historic Trail in 1994 by the state legislatures of Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas; Missouri passed similar legislation in 1996. As of 2013 [update] , 80 Trail of Death markers were located along the route in all four states, at every 15 to 20 miles where the group had camped between each day's walk.
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War, was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas .
The Missouri Territory was originally known as the larger Louisiana Territory since 1804 (encompassing most of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase from the French Empire) and was renamed by the U.S. Congress on June 4, 1812, to avoid confusion with the new 18th state of Louisiana (further to the south on the lower Mississippi River with its river port city of New Orleans), which had been admitted to ...
First Invasion: The War of 1812 is a documentary produced by the History Channel which aired on September 11, 2004. The film was about the American War of 1812, when the Americans fought the British for the first time since the American Revolutionary War.
Henry Leavenworth (December 10, 1783 – July 21, 1834) was an American soldier active in the War of 1812 and early military expeditions against the Plains Indians. [1] He established Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. The city of Leavenworth, Kansas; Leavenworth County, Kansas; and the Leavenworth Penitentiary are named after him.
The Upper Mississippi River during the War of 1812. 1: Fort Belle Fontaine U.S. headquarters; 2: Fort Osage, abandoned 1813; 3: Fort Madison, defeated 1813; 4: Fort Shelby, defeated 1814; 5: Battle of Rock Island Rapids, July 1814 and the Battle of Credit Island, Sept. 1814; 6: Fort Johnson, abandoned 1814; 7: Fort Cap au Gris and the Battle of the Sink Hole, May 1815.
William Eustis resigns as U.S. Secretary of War: 1812 Dec 3 home front James Monroe serves as U.S. Secretary of War 1812 Dec 18 Great Lakes region: Battle of the Mississinewa: Part of a U.S. expedition against Delaware and Miami villages where the Mississinewa River flows into the Wabash River near present-day Marion, Indiana. 1812 Dec 26 ...
The War of 1812 marked a turning point in the history of the Old Northwest because it established United States authority over the British and Indians of that border region. [287] After the decisive defeat of the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, some Creek warriors escaped to join the Seminole in Florida.