But after four tortuous months , his freedom at last won on 6 April 1839 , the Prophet went on ( despite all the deprivations , wrongs , even rape and massacre that had been inflicted ) to reassemble his people , ' modern Israel ' , a few miles to the north at Commerce , Illinois , where they established their ' City Beautiful ' — Nauvoo ( est. 1840 ) — on the banks of the mighty Mississippi , and there , upon a high bluff overlooking the city , they at last built the temple to their God which they could not build in the land that had been dedicated for the future ' Zion of the Lord '
massacre
Haun's Mill massacre
Messiah ben Joseph (LDS Church)