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  2. Black Hills Expedition - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hills Expedition was a United States Army expedition in 1874 led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer that set out on July 2, 1874, from Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, which is south of modern day Mandan, North Dakota, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota.

  3. List of battles fought in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Fort Stephenson [14] August 2, 1813 modern Sandusky County, Ohio: War of 1812 27 United Kingdom & Tecumseh's confederacy vs United States of America Battle of Put-in-Bay: September 10, 1813 Lake Erie near modern Put-in-Bay, Ohio: War of 1812 68 United Kingdom vs United States of America Battle of Buffington Island [15] July 19, 1863

  4. Great Sioux War of 1876 - Wikipedia

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    After the defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876, Congress responded by attaching what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider (19 Stat. 192) to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 (enacted August 15, 1876) which cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the United States.

  5. George Armstrong Custer - Wikipedia

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    One man on each side was killed. In 1874, Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills and announced the discovery of gold on French Creek near present-day Custer, South Dakota. Custer's announcement triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush. Among the towns that immediately sprung up was Deadwood, South Dakota, notorious for its lawlessness.

  6. 7th Cavalry Regiment - Wikipedia

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    Over the next several years, the 7th Cavalry Regiment was involved in several important missions in the American West; one of which was the Black Hills Expedition in 1874. The Troopers escorted prospectors into the Black Hills of South Dakota (considered sacred by many Indians, including the Sioux) to protect them as they searched for gold.

  7. Charles Windolph - Wikipedia

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    Windolph first married in 1882 to Mary Jones who died in 1883. He later married a childhood friend, Mathilda Lulow. Mathilda Lulow was born ca. 1861 on the Isle of Rugen to Karl Christian Christoph Lulow and Marie Sophia Henrietta Kagelmacher. Mathilda died on 23 March 1924 and is buried with her husband in the Black Hills National Cemetery.

  8. William H. Illingworth - Wikipedia

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    William H. Illingworth (20 September 1844 – 16 March 1893) was an English born photographer from St. Paul, Minnesota who accompanied both Captain James L. Fisk's 1866 expedition to the Montana Territory and Lt. Colonel George Custer's 1874 U.S. military expedition into the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory (now western South Dakota).

  9. Myles Moylan - Wikipedia

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    Moylan participated in the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, and in the Black Hills Expedition of 1874. Captain Moylan again fought with the 7th Cavalry, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Montana Territory, on June 25–26, 1876, as the commander of Company A (which was part of the battalion placed under the command of Major Marcus Reno).