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went in pursuit, and, on the next day, reached the Blue 

 Mounds ; and being rejoined by General Atkinson and the 

 regular troops, and the other brigades, the whole force arrived 

 at Helena, on the Wisconsin, on the 26th. On the 2d of 

 August they overtook Black Hawk near the Bad Axe, and again 

 defeated him in a decisive action. The American force con- 

 sisted of four hundred regulars and parts of Henry's, Posey's 

 and Alexander's brigades of militia, in the whole 1300 men. 

 General Atkinson, in his account of these engagements, 

 states that the Indian loss, in both, was three hundred. He 

 returns only eighteen killed, and four wounded, of his ow^n 

 men, at Bad Axe ; and states the Indian loss at one hundred 

 and fifty killed, and thirty-five captured. Black Hawk him- 

 self escaped ; but, about three weeks afterward, was brought 

 into the camp a prisoner by some Winnebagoes. Thus 

 ended the three months' movement, commonly called the 

 Black Hawk war. It was succeeded immediately by a ces- 

 sion of a strip of country on the west of the Missisippi, fifty 

 miles wide, extending north from Missouri to the neutral 

 ground, in a treaty concluded by General Scott in September 

 of the same year ; and, in the summer of 1 833, the settlement 

 of Iowa by the white man was commenced. Two small 

 strips were successively purchased in 1836 and 1837 ; and, 

 in 1842, a vast tract, estimated to contain about 23,000 square 

 miles, or 15,000,000 acres, centrally situated between the 

 two great rivers, was added to the former purchases. 



On the 1st of August, 1829, by a treaty with the Winne- 

 bagoes, the United States acquired a large tract, beginning at 

 the mouth of the Pee-kectanon, or Pectanon, and following 

 up that river and the Sugar Creek branch, and across north- 

 wardly to Fox River, and down the Wisconsin to the mouth, 

 and southerly from thence to Rock River, at a point forty 

 miles from its mouth, and up that river to Pectanon. A large 



