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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.
Between the battles of Honsinger Bluff (4 August) and Pease Bottom (11 August), a force of Lakotas attacked a Crow camp on Pryor Creek in the Crow reservation in a day long battle. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Note that the line for the 1868 unceded Lakota territory "east of the summits of the Big Horn Mountains" [ 18 ] may be disputed.
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 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.
Massacre Canyon is the large canyon about half a mile west of here. The battle took place in and along this canyon when a Pawnee hunting party of about 700, confident of protection from the government, were surprised by a War Party of Sioux.
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 ...