Battle of Bad Axe
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The Bad Axe Massacre was a massacre of Sauk and Meskwaki people by United States Army regulars and militia that occurred on August 1–2, 1832. This final scene of the Black Hawk War took place near pre
The American steamboat, Warrior at the Battle of Bad Axe attacking fleeing Sauk and Meskwaki trying to escape across the Mississippi River which resulted in a massacre in the last major engagement of the Black Hawk War
Battle of Bad Axe, engraving by Ernest Heinemann, from original by William de la Montagne Cary
An 1847 illustration of a dead Sauk woman and her surviving child being discovered by a U.S. officer at Bad Axe.
Monument near the site of the Bad Axe massacre
Victory, Wisconsin
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Victory is an unincorporated community in the Town of Wheatland in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located 4.5 miles north of De Soto and 6.2 miles south of Genoa on the Mississippi Riv
Battle of Bad Axe
…people by United States Army regulars and militia that occurred on August 1–2, 1832. This final scene of the Black Hawk War took place near present-day Victory, Wisconsin, in the United States. It marked the end of the war between white settlers and militia in Illinois and Michigan Territory, and the Sauk and…
Victory, Wisconsin
The sign for Victory on WIS35.
Victory Wisconsin Downtown WIS35