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The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd U.S. Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.
The remains of those killed were repatriated in 1994. 12 U.S. soldiers were also killed. 64–77 (including warriors) [302] [303] 1879: September 30: Meeker Massacre: Colorado: In the beginning of the Ute War, the Ute killed the US Indian Agent Nathan Meeker and 10 others. They also attacked a military unit, killing 13 and wounding 43. 11
Sergeant First Class John Raymond Rice (Native American name: Walking in Blue Sky [1]) (April 25, 1914 – September 6, 1950) was a Ho Chunk (Winnebago) Indian and a United States Army soldier killed in action while leading his squad in Korea in 1950.
The Bear River Massacre was an attack by around 200 US soldiers that killed an estimated 250 to 400 children, women, and men at a Shoshone winter encampment on January 29, 1863. [b] Some sources describe it as the largest mass murder of Native Americans by the US military, [5] [4] [6] and largest single episode of genocide in US history. [7]
According to a modern account by the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the 7th Cavalry had 21 officers and men killed and 13 wounded at the Washita. They estimated the Indians had perhaps 50 killed and as many wounded. [37] Twenty of the soldiers killed were part of a small detachment led by Major Joel Elliott, [52] who was among the dead ...
The soldiers were killed late Monday when they were fired at by militants hiding in the forests of southern Doda district in Jammu division, the Indian military said in a statement on the X social ...
STORY: The landslide occurred in the early hours of a remote area in the northeast state of Manipur on the night of June 29. The army and rescue task forces were drafted into joining the search ...
Near Dry Creek, the soldiers were ambushed by 60 Indians, but rescued by twenty additional cavalry went out to help them. Two soldiers were killed and they claimed to have killed one Indian. The builder of the bridge, an elderly civilian named Louis Guinard, disappeared. A boot containing part of his leg was found months later. [11] Sage Creek ...