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The Battle of Canyon Creek was a military engagement in Montana Territory between the Nez Perce Indians and the United States Army's 7th Cavalry. The battle was part of the larger Indian Wars of the latter 19th century and the immediate Nez Perce War .
Battle of the Big Hole: August 9–10, 1877 Beaverhead County: Nez Perce War: 118 [4] United States of America vs Nez Perce & Palouse: Battle of Canyon Creek: September 13, 1877 near Billings: Nez Perce War 7 United States of America & Crow vs Nez Perce Battle of Bear Paw: September 30 - October 5, 1877 near modern Chinook: Nez Perce War 49
On August 20, 1877, the Nez Perce and the U.S. Army engaged again at the Battle of Camas Creek [3] just west of Henrys Lake, Idaho.The Nez Perce raided a camp of soldiers, stealing mostly mules and a few horses and supplies.
A total of 45 men earned the Medal of Honor while serving with the 7th Cavalry during the American Indian Wars: 24 for actions during the Battle of the Little Bighorn, two during the Battle of Bear Paw, 17 for being involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre or an engagement at White Clay Creek the next day, and two during other actions against the ...
The Attack on Looking Glass Camp was a military attack carried out on July 1, 1877 as part of the Nez Perce War by Captain Stephen G. Whipple of the United States Army on the village of the Native American chief Looking Glass, located near the Clearwater River, near the present-day town of Kooskia.
The Battle Creek massacre was a lynching of a Timpanogos group on March 5, 1849, by a group of 35 Mormon settlers at Battle Creek Canyon near present-day Pleasant Grove, Utah. [1] It was the first violent engagement between the settlers who had begun coming to the area two years before, and was in response to reported cattle theft by the group.
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 Battle of White Bird Canyon was fought on June 17, 1877, in Idaho Territory. White Bird Canyon was the opening battle of the Nez Perce War between the Nez Perce Indians and the United States. The battle was a significant defeat of the U.S. Army. It took place in the western part of present-day Idaho County, southwest of the city of Grangeville.