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near modern Columbus, Nebraska: War of the Quadruple Alliance: 46 [2] Spanish Empire, Pueblo, & Apache vs Pawnee & Otoe: Battle of Ash Hollow [3] September 3, 1855 near modern Lewellen, Nebraska: First Sioux War: 113 Brulé vs United States of America Battle Creek [4] July 12, 1859 near modern Battle Creek, Nebraska: Pawnee War of 1859 0
Sparta Township is one of thirty townships in Knox County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 67 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ] A 2023 estimate placed the township's population at 68.
In the first part of the 18th century, French explorers and fur traders began to enter the plains west of the Missouri River, which they claimed as Louisiana.In 1714, Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont became the first colonial explorer known to have reached the mouth of the Platte River, although other French traders may have visited the area and lived among the Indians. [2]
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In 1720, Spaniard Pedro de Villasur led an overland expedition that followed an Indian trail from Santa Fe to Nebraska. In a battle with the Oto and Pawnee, Villasur and 34 members of his party were killed near the juncture of the Loup and Platte Rivers just south of present-day Columbus, Nebraska. The survivors included twelve or thirteen ...
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People from the nearest communities visited the scene of the battle over the following days. Royal Buck wrote to the readers of Nebraska City News that "It was a massacre and nothing more, and near 100 victims are lying on the ground and full two thirds are squaws and pappooses [small Indian children]". [26]
The Battle of Mud Springs took place February 4–6, 1865, in Nebraska between the U.S. army and warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. It was part of a series of retaliations by the Native American alliance after the U.S. army committed the Sand Creek Massacre. The battle was inconclusive, although the Indians succeeded in ...