The lead-up to this was included a dispute over lead mining rights supposedly granted by the Treaty of St. Louis. In the aftermath of this war, Winfield Scott concluded the purchase of the Forty-Mile Strip. In the decisive action of this war, a brigade under Henry Atkinson massacred the members of the “British Band” at the Battle of Bad Axe. Abraham Lincoln’s only military service was in this war, which was named for a fellow tribesman of Keokuk who refused to vacate lands in the Illinois Territory. For 10 points, name this 1830s war between American forces and Sauk natives.
The lead-up to this was included a dispute over lead mining rights supposedly granted by the Treaty of St. Louis. In the aftermath of this war, Winfield Scott concluded the purchase of the Forty-Mile Strip. In the decisive action of this war, a brigade under Henry Atkinson massacred the members of the “British Band” at the Battle of Bad Axe. Abraham Lincoln’s only military service was in this war, which was named for a fellow tribesman of Keokuk who refused to vacate lands in the Illinois Territory. For 10 points, name this 1830s war between American forces and Sauk natives.
The lead-up to this was included a dispute over lead mining rights supposedly granted by the Treaty of St. Louis.