Edmund P. Gaines
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Edmund Pendleton Gaines was an American military officer who served for nearly fifty years, and attained the rank of major general by brevet. He was one of the United States Army's senior commanders d
Gaines in c. 1845
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin engraving of Gaines as a first lieutenant in 1808
John Wesley Jarvis portrait, circa 1820
Engraving of Gaines circa 1835
Black Hawk War
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The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and Kickapoos, know
Edmund P. Gaines
…the United States Army's senior commanders during its formative years in the early to mid-1800s, and was a veteran of the War of 1812, Seminole Wars, Black Hawk War, and Mexican–American War. A native of Culpeper County, Virginia, he was named for his great-uncle Edmund Pendleton. Gaines was educated in Virginia…
Black Hawk, the Sauk war chief and namesake of the Black Hawk War in 1832
Keokuk by George Catlin, c. 1830s
Newspaper account of the alarm caused by Sauk returning to Saukenuk, Washington National Intelligencer, June 13, 1831
Fort Armstrong was located on Rock Island, which is now known as Arsenal Island. The view is from the Illinois side, with Iowa in the background.