The Doomed Journey Of Black Hawk's People

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 30, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

TWILIGHT OF EMPIRE By Allan W. Eckert Little, Brown. 587 pp. $24.95

THE REMOVAL of the eastern tribes of Indians beyond the Mississippi River, inaugurated during the first administration of Andrew Jackson, triggered two very dissimilar but important armed conflicts: the Second Seminole War and the Black Hawk War. The Seminoles, led by Osceola, resisted removal from Florida to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma and fought a long and bloody war that began in 1835, ended in 1842, and cost the federal government $15 million and the loss of 1,500 regular soldiers. There are no ...

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