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Battle of Bear Paw: September 30 - October 5, 1877 near modern Chinook: Nez Perce War 49 United States of America vs Nez Perce Battle of Pumpkin Creek: February 7, 1880 near modern Volborg: Sioux Wars 3 United States of America vs Lakota Battle of Milk River July 17, 1879 near modern Saco: Sioux Wars 6 United States of America vs Lakota
The conflict was called the Battle of Milk Creek and the battle site extends over about 1,600 acres. [1] [13] Meeker, others at the White River Agency, Thornburgh, and 11 [10] or 13 of his soldiers were killed in the attack on the Agency and at Milk Creek. Some women and children were taken captive by the Utes.
Milk River, Colo. Oct 2, 1879 – Oct 5, 1879: Company D, 9th U.S. Cavalry: Buffalo Soldier. Voluntarily left fortified shelter and under heavy fire at close range made the rounds of the pits to instruct the guards, fought his way to the creek and back to bring water to the wounded. —
The fort was located within a massive military reservation stretching south to the Missouri River, north to the Milk River and containing the Bear's Paw Mountains. It encompassed 704,000 acres (1,100 sq. mi., 2850 km 2) at its maximum extent in 1880. It later was reduced to encompass 220,000 acres (344 sq. mi., 890 km 2). At its peak, it ...
On September 29, 1879, a group of Ute warriors, led by Chief Colorow ambushed a group of around 175 soldiers and militiamen from Fort Steele near Milk Creek. At the same time, the Utes also killed the Indian agent and his white employees at the Ute reservation nearby.
On Saturday, April 5, 1879 in present-day Powder River or Custer County, Montana, near the crossing of Mizpah Creek, length of 12 miles, by the Fort Keogh to Deadwood telegraph line, Sergeant Kennedy of the U.S. Signal Corps, and Private Leo Baader of Company E, 2nd U.S. Cavalry were repairing the line, when Black Coyote's party found and attacked them.
Samuel Austin Cherry (April 14, 1850 – May 11, 1881) was a lieutenant in the United States Army. He spent most of his military career at posts in Wyoming and Nebraska. In 1879, he participated in the Battle of Milk Creek, where he commanded a group of 20 men in a rear-guard action that allowed their column to make an orderly withdrawal from a superior Ute force and establish a defensive posit
The first book ever published in Montana. [43] July – Green Clay Smith appointed territorial governor of Montana; July 10 – Camp Cooke, the first U.S. Army post built in Montana located on the Missouri River, at the mouth of the Judith River was named for General Philip St. George Cooke, the commander of the Department of the Platte at the ...