Good morning.
The forecast for Whitewater’s Thursday calls for a hot day, with a temperature of ninety-eight, and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
On this day in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending the First World War.
Almost a century earlier, on this day in 1832, another war was as yet unfinished:
1832 – Atkinson starts up Rock River in Black Hawk War
On this date General Henry Atkinson and the Second Army began its trip into the Wisconsin wilderness in a major effort against Black Hawk. The “Army of the Frontier” was formed of 400 U.S. Army Regulars and 2,100 volunteer militiamen in order to participate in the Black Hawk War. The troops were headed toward the Lake Koshkonong area where the main camp of the British Band was rumored to be located. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p. 93-94] [Wisconsin HIstorical Society]
Google’s daily puzzle asks about a flower: “What characteristic gives the flower with the world’s largest bloom its unusual nickname?”