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Illinois Territory in the War of 1812

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to pay soldiers in land grants for their service. This is over 1/8 of the area of the modern state and included Indian-occupied areas, some of whose displaced inhabitants would later join Blackhawk.
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and United States soldiers and settlers. The Illinois Territory at that time included the areas of modern Illinois, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota and Michigan.
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The state of Illinois has a list of 1,500 names of militiamen and officers from original muster rolls although the muster lists are known to be incomplete.
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In October 1812, the Americans launched an expedition against the Native villages in the Peoria area. Led by Governor Edwards and Colonel
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5 million acres of land in the Illinois Territory, between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers below Rock Island, was set aside as the
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in July and renamed it Fort McKay. Two American attempts to send more troops to Prairie du Chien were turned back by Indian attacks at
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Tensions in the Illinois Territory between U.S. settlers and Native Americans were on the rise in the years before the War of 1812. At
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villages, prompting the Natives to abandon the area. Raids continued, however.
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Operations on the Upper Mississippi River during the War of 1812. 1:
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Involvement of the Illinois Territory in the War of 1812
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Index

Peoria War

Fort Bellefontaine
Fort Osage
Fort Madison
Fort Shelby
Battle of Rock Island Rapids
Battle of Credit Island
Fort Johnson
Fort Cap au Gris
Battle of the Sink Hole
War of 1812
Illinois Territory
Native Americans
Peoria
Potawatomi
Main Poc
resistance movement
Shawnee
Tenskwatawa
Tecumseh
Battle of Tippecanoe
Indiana Territory
U.S. Army
Ninian Edwards
attacked soldiers and civilians
Fort Dearborn
William Russell
Kickapoo
Fort Clark

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