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The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the ...
The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. p. 287. Utley, Robert M. Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848–1865 (1981) Utley, Robert M. Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866–1891 (1984)
Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Cheyenne Arapaho: Military and congressional hearings against John Chivington; Snake War (1864–68) United States: Snake Indians: Hualapai War (1865–70) Part of the Yavapai Wars United States: Hualapai Yavapai Havasupai: Black Hawk's War (1865–72) Part of the Ute, Apache and Navajo Wars United States ...
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The 8th Cavalry Regiment is a regiment of the United States Army formed in 1866 during the American Indian Wars. The 8th Cavalry continued to serve under a number of designations, fighting in every other major U.S. conflict since, except World War I, when it was not deployed to Europe because it was already engaged in the Punitive Expedition in ...
The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry [5] under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a ...
The war resulted in a total of 1,762 men who have been killed, wounded, and captured from both sides. Unlike other Indian Wars, the Snake War has widely forgotten in United States history due to having only limited coverage of the war. [206] The Colorado War fought by Cheyenne, Arapaho and Sioux, was fought in the territories of Colorado to ...
Captain and troopers of the 9th Cavalry, 1880. A Signal Corps sergeant is in the foreground. In July 1867 the 9th Cavalry was ordered to western and southwestern Texas, to maintain law and order between the Rio Grande and Concho Rivers along a 630-mile line with seven forts from Fort Clark to Fort Quitman near present-day El Paso (the forts ended up including Fort Quitman, Fort Davis, Fort ...