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==Fort Madison and the War of 1812==
Zebulon Pike noted rumors that Quashquame was leading a large group of 500 Sauk, Meskwaki, and Ioway near the Missouri River west of St. Louis in 1806.<ref>July 17, 1806 journal entry, ''The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike.'' ed. Elliot Coues, Vol. 2, (1895) Harper, New York</ref> This village might have been at [[Moniteau Creek (south central Missouri)|Moniteau Creek]] in the south part of [[Cooper County, Missouri]], where he was later known to have a temporary village.<ref name="Johnson">Johnson (1919:63)</ref> Quashuame was back along the Mississippi by 1809, Quashquame attended several meetings with the U.S. Army at [[Fort Madison]] during the turbulent period leading up to the [[War of 1812]]. Quashquame and his band of Sauk remained neutral during the war.<ref>Fulton 1882</ref>
In the Spring of 1809 several Sauk, possibly led by Black Hawk, attempted to storm Fort Madison. They were held at bay by threat of cannon fire. The next day Quashquame and two other Sauk leaders attempted to restore relations with the [[United States Army]], telling the commander, Alpha Kingsley, that the offending parties were acting on their own and had left the region. Kingsley demonstrated the might of the Army, firing a canister of shot from a six-pounder cannon. The Sauk were astonished and “put their hands to their mouths with an exclamation that that shot would have killed half of them.”<ref>Van der Zee (1913:524-525)</ref>
Quashquamie attempted to placate Gen. [[William Clark (explorer)|William Clark]] during a meeting in 1810 or 1811 in St. Louis, telling Clark, "My father, I left my home to see my great-grandfather, the president of the United States, but as I cannot proceed to see him, I give you my hand as to himself. I have no father to whom I have paid any attention but yourself. If you hear anything, I hope that you will let me know, and I will do the same. I have been advised several times to raise the tomahawk. Since the last war we have looked upon the Americans as friends, and I shall hold you fast by the hand. The Great Spirit has not put us on the earth to war with the whites. We have never struck a white man. If we go to war it is with the red flesh. Other nations send belts among us, and urge us to war. They say that if we do not, the Americans will encroach upon us, and drive us off our lands." <ref>Johnson (1919:62)</ref> About 1810, Quashquamie maintained a camp or temporary village along [[Moniteau Creek (south central Missouri)|Moniteau Creek]] in the south part of [[Cooper County, Missouri]], perhaps near [[Rocheport, Missouri|Rocheport]].<ref name="Johnson" />
Quashquame was left in charge of the non-warrior members of the Sauk during the War of 1812. Black Hawk wrote:
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