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aug 5, 1838 - The Deadline of the Potawatomi to Evacuate

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Some Indians already left, but some had stayed. In result, David Wallace, Indiana's governor, ordered the state's militia to force the remaining Indians out westward by burning down various villages.

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aug 5, 1838
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~ 188 years ago