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1810s–1870s Minneconjou Teton Lakota: Chief of Minneconjou teton lakota Indians, signed the treaty of fort Laramie in 1868. Father of Touch the Clouds and Spotted Elk, uncle to Crazy Horse: Captain Jack: c. 1837–1873 1860s–1870s Modoc: Mangas Coloradas: c. 1793–1863 1820s–1850s Apache: Cochise: c. 1805–1874 1860s–1870s Apache ...
Oct 5, 1870: Company M, 6th U.S. Cavalry: Gallantry during the pursuit and fight with Indians. Edgar R. Aston: Army: Private: San Carlos, Arizona Territory: May 30, 1868: Company L, 8th U.S. Cavalry: With two other men, voluntarily scouted hostile terrain to find a wagon passage and held off an Apache attack —
In 1882, the U.S. Army sent Brigadier General George R. Crook (1839-1890) to take command of Indian operations in Arizona Territory. [8] Crook was an experienced Indian fighter who had long since learned that regular soldiers were almost useless against the Apaches and had based his entire strategy on employing "Indians to fight other Indians". [8]
(1860) United States: Paiute Shoshone Bannock: Yavapai Wars (1861–75) United States: Yavapai Apache Yuma Mohave: Owens Valley Indian War (1862–67) United States: Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Kawaiisu Tübatulabal: Dakota War of 1862 (1862) Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Dakota Sioux: Goshute War (1863) Colorado War (1864–65) Part ...
United States Army Indian Scouts and trackers had served the US government since the Civil War. During the Indian Wars, the Pawnee people, the Crow people and the Tonkawa people allied with the American cavalry against their old rivals the Apache and Sioux. [32] Sgt. I-See-O of the Kiowa people was still in active service during the World War I ...
An Indian freedom fighter and rani of the Kittur, a former princely state in Karnataka. She led an armed force against the British East India Company in 1824 in defiance of the doctrine of lapse in an attempt to maintain Indian control over the region, but was defeated in the third war and died in prison. Komaram Bheem
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Map showing the Indian Princely states during the rebellion of 1857 The Victoria Cross (VC) was introduced in Great Britain on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to reward acts of valour during the Crimean War. For the Indian Mutiny (also known as India's First War of Independence, Revolt of 1857, or the Sepoy Mutiny) the VC was awarded to 182 members of the British Armed Forces, the Honourable ...