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0h 5min, aug 5, 1838 y - Potawatomi Trail of Death Begins

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Armed Militia led by General Tipton went and arrested all of the Potawatomi who have yet to move, and then set fire to their village to deter them from coming back. All the Indians were rounded up and the chiefs were locked in a wagon cage and forced to walk to Kansas.

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0h 5min, aug 5, 1838 y
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~ 185 years ago

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