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Major Robert Parrish (Dale Robertson) of the 7th Cavalry is considered by some to be his own worst enemy because he is not a "team player".Formerly one of the youngest colonels in the Union Army during the American Civil War, he is now a company commander under Lt. Colonel (formerly Brevet Major General during the Civil War) George Armstrong Custer (Douglas Kennedy).
It was the beginning of the end of the "Indian Wars" and has even been referred to as "the Indians' last stand" [108] in the area. Within 48 hours of the battle, the large encampment on the Little Bighorn broke up into smaller groups because there was not enough game and grass to sustain a large congregation of people and horses.
Image Name Service Rank Place of action Date of action Unit Notes George E. Albee: Army: First Lieutenant: Brazos River, Texas Oct 28, 1869: 41st U.S. Infantry: Attacked with 2 men a force of 11 Indians, drove them from the hills, and reconnoitered the country beyond.
Rogers' Rangers was a company of soldiers from the Province of New Hampshire raised by Major Robert Rogers and attached to the British Army during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War). The unit was quickly adopted into the New England Colonies army as an independent ranger company.
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 American cavalry then counterattacked. In the words of Private Morris; "The cavalry charged and took a volley from the Indian camp. At 200 yards we leaped from our horses and flattened out behind clumps of sagebrush. We traded shots for a while, until two Hotchkiss field guns on the hill began dumping two-inch into the Indian camp. That ...
Part of the Texas–Indian wars Spain Mexico Republic of Texas United States Choctaw Nation: Comanche: Osage Indian War (1837) Osage Nation: Cayuse War (1847–55) United States: Cayuse: Ute Wars (1849–1923) United States: Ute Paiute Navajo Apache: Utes moved to reservations; Apache Wars (1849–1924) Part of the Texas–Indian wars United ...
During the French and Indian War, in retaliation for a rumored murder of a captured Stockbridge man and detention of Captain Quinten Kennedy of the Rogers' Rangers, Major Robert Rogers led a party of approximately 150 Rangers, regular troops and British-allied Mahican into the village of Odanak, Quebec.