Leading a band of rebels against the forces of the United States, Black Hawk was a prominent Native American leader whose ...

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As a young man, Black Hawk quickly began building a reputation as a war leader, leading battles on behalf of his tribe. In 1804, Quashquame, a Sauk chief, signed the Treaty of 1804 with agents ...

He's known for his role in Black Hawk Down where he played war hero Staff Sergeant Matthew Eversmann, dispatched to Somalia with 160 elite US soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission. The film ...

Lincoln's only military experience had come in 1832, when he was captain of a militia unit that saw no action in the Black Hawk War, which began when Sac and Fox Indians (led by the war chief ...

As a commander, he fought the British in the War of 1812, and Native Americans in the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the second Seminole War in Florida in 1835. His performance in the Seminole War ...