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  2. Black Hawk, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Black Hawk, also spelled Blackhawk, is an unincorporated community located in Carroll County, Mississippi, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Greenwood on Mississippi Highway 430 and approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Acona. Black Hawk is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area.

  3. Plum River raid - Wikipedia

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    Angered by the loss of his birthplace, between 1830–31 Black Hawk led a number of incursions across the Mississippi River, but was persuaded to return west each time without bloodshed. In April 1832, encouraged by promises of alliance with other tribes and the British, he again moved his so-called "British Band" of around 1000 warriors and ...

  4. Blackhawk, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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  5. Warrior (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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    The conflict became known as the Black Hawk War. The Warrior was one of several steamboats pressed into service by the U.S. government for use by military forces after the outbreak of the 1832 Black Hawk War. [3] Warrior was used mostly as a troop transport during the war but it played a key role in the war's final battle. [4]

  6. Battle of Bad Axe - Wikipedia

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    Near the mouth of the Bad Axe River, on August 1, 1832, Black Hawk and Winnebago prophet and fellow British Band leader White Cloud advised the band against wasting time building rafts to cross the Mississippi River, because the U.S. forces were closing in, urging them instead to flee northward and seek refuge among the Ho-Chunk. However, most ...

  7. Column: How Mississippi gamed its national reading test ...

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    Statistics show that Mississippi's children have gone from having almost the worst scores on the standardized national reading test for fourth-graders in 2013 to narrowly exceeding the national ...

  8. Sac and Fox treaty of 1842 - Wikipedia

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    For the next three months, the Illinois militia pursued Black Hawk and his band of approximately four hundred Indians northward along the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The Indians surrendered at the Bad Axe River in Wisconsin, their numbers having dwindled to about two hundred. This encounter is known as the Black Hawk War. [1]

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