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008			110908s2012 iluab ob s001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aE359 _b.I455 2012
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aFerguson, Gillum. _e1
245	1	0	_aIllinois in the War of 1812 /Gillum Ferguson.
260			_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c(c)2012.
300			_a1 online resource
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505	0	0	_aCover -- _tTitle Page -- _tCopyright -- _tContents -- _tList of Illustrations -- _tAcknowledgments -- _t1. Morning -- _t2. Evening -- _t3. Rumors of War -- _t4. Chicago -- _t5. Peoria -- _t6. Dickson and Forsyth -- _t7. Edwards -- _t8. Howard -- _t9. Clark -- _t10. Headwinds -- _t11. Peace? -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
520	0		_aOn the eve of the War of 1812, the Illinois Territory was a new land of bright promise. Split off from Indiana Territory in 1809, the new territory ran from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers north to the U.S. border with Canada, embracing the current states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and a part of Michigan. The extreme southern part of the region was rich in timber, but the dominant feature of the landscape was the vast tall grass prairie that stretched without major interruption from Lake Michigan for more than three hundred miles to the south. The territory was largely inhabited by Indians: Sauk, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, and others. By 1812, however, pioneer farmers had gathered in the wooded fringes around prime agricultural land, looking out over the prairies with longing and trepidation._x000B__x000B_Six years later, a populous Illinois was confident enough to seek and receive admission as a state in the Union. What had intervened was the War of 1812, in which white settlers faced both Indians resistant to their encroachments and British forces poised to seize control of the upper Mississippi and Great Lakes. The war ultimately broke the power and morale of the Indian tribes and deprived them of the support of their ally, Great Britain. Sometimes led by skillful tacticians, at other times by blundering looters who got lost in the tall grass, the combatants showed each other little mercy. Until and even after the war was concluded by the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, there were massacres by both sides, laying the groundwork for later betrayal of friendly and hostile tribes alike and for ultimate expulsion of the Indians from the new state of Illinois._x000B__x000B_In this engrossing new history, published upon the war's bicentennial, Gillum Ferguson underlines the crucial importance of the War of 1812 in the development of Illinois as a state. The history of Illinois in the War of 1812 has never before been told with so much attention to the personalities who fought it, the events that defined it, and its lasting consequences._x000B__x000B_Endorsed by the Illinois Society of the War of 1812 and the Illinois War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.
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650		0	_aIndians of North America _xWars _zIllinois.
650		0	_aIndians of North America _xWars _y1812-1815.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=569502&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell