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
Victory, Wisconsin
The sign for Victory on WIS35.
Victory Wisconsin Downtown WIS35
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
Victory, Wisconsin
…north of De Soto and 6.2 miles south of Genoa on the Mississippi River along the Great River Road (WIS 35). It also is served by the BNSF Railway. The Bad Axe Massacre, the final engagement of the Black Hawk War of 1832, took place near this community. The community's name commemorates the United States victory…
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