Broken Hand Historical Marker – Rock Island, IL
N 41° 27.835 W 090° 34.387
15T E 702674 N 4593101
This marker is located outside the Black Hawk Museum.
Waymark Code: WMJCJM
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 10/30/2013
Views: 4
This marker is located outside the Black Hawk Museum. It reads:
To the Memory of Le Main Cassee “The Broken Hand,” a Fearless Sauk Chief.
A true friend of the American cause during the Revolutionary War, his village occupied these and adjacent grounds and withstood a British war party on its way to attack General George Rogers Clark in 1779.
This also commemorates the burning of the Sauk and Fox villages here in 1780 by Colonel John Montgomery with an allied army of Americans and Spaniards in the westernmost campaign of the Revolutionary War.
Dedicated by the Colonel John Montgomery chapter, Sons of American Revolution, for the Sesquicentennial Celebration of Rock Island County, Illinois, September 17, 1930.
County: Rock Island County
Historical Society: Sons of American Revolution
Dedication Date: September 17, 1930
Location: Black Hawk Museum
Website: Not listed
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