The Bad Axe River is a 4.2-mile-long (6.8 km)[1] tributary of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin in the United States. "Bad axe" is a translation from the French, "la mauvaise hache", but the origin of the name is unknown.[2][3] The river's mouth at the Mississippi was the site of the Battle of Bad Axe, an 1832 U.S. Army massacre of Sauk and Fox Indians at the end of the Black Hawk War.
^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 13, 2011
^Kellogg, Louise Phelps. "Derivation of County Names" in Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1909, pages 219-231.
^Butterfield, History of Vernon County (Springfield, 1884), p. 132.
The BadAxeRiver is a 4.2-mile-long (6.8 km) tributary of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin in the United States. "Badaxe" is a translation...
them on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, a few miles downstream from the mouth of the BadAxeRiver. Historians have called it a massacre since...
the Wisconsin River. This reprieve was temporary; when the militia finally caught up with the fleeing band it resulted in the BadAxe massacre at the...
insignificant until the final two encounters: the Wisconsin Heights and the BadAxeRiver. Band members who survived the war were either imprisoned or returned...
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River, the St. Joseph River, the Kankakee River, Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers, the Illinois River and Lake Peoria, and the Des Plaines and Fox Rivers...
ranks of the military, establishing military forts along the Mississippi River and entering the Black Hawk War as a colonel in 1832. His success in the...
The Wisconsin River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. At approximately 430 miles (692 km) long, it is the state's...
or developed as a people in a large territory along the southern Wabash River in the area of modern Terre Haute, Indiana, where they were located at the...
kept their same borders. BadAxe County existed from 1851 to 1862. It was named after the BadAxeRiver and the Battle of BadAxe. It was renamed to Vernon...
Creation, according to their tradition. They arose where the Menominee River enters Green Bay of Lake Michigan, where the city of Marinette, Wisconsin...
needed] The Meskwaki gained control of the Fox River system in eastern and central Wisconsin. This river became vital for the colonial New France fur trade...
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the time, saying "We have observed for some time the Menomonees to be a in bad situation as to their chiefs. There is no one we can talk to as head of the...
conflict had come to a close with the army's victory at the Battle of BadAxe. Scott and Governor John Reynolds concluded the Black Hawk Purchase with...
men saw action at the battles of Horseshoe Bend, Wisconsin Heights, and BadAxe. In June 1832, he accepted a commission as Major of the Battalion of Mounted...
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