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The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse , riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land.
The Fetterman Fight, also known as the Fetterman Massacre or the Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands or the Battle of a Hundred Slain, [1] was a battle during Red Cloud's War on December 21, 1866, between a confederation of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and a detachment of the United States Army, based at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming.
The Indian plan of attack on the woodcutters and soldiers was tried-and-true, similar to the plan used the previous year to kill Fetterman's force, a total of 81 lost. A small group of Indians would entice the soldiers to chase them, leading the men into an ambush by a larger hidden force. Crazy Horse was among the members of the decoy team.
The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse: Three Eyewitness Views by the Indian, Chief He Dog the Indian White, William Garnett the White Doctor, Valentine McGillycuddy. 1988. ISBN 0-8032-6330-9; Marshall, Joseph M. III. The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History. 2004. Guttmacher, Peter and David W. Baird. Ed. Crazy Horse: Sioux War Chief. New York ...
Fetterman allegedly boasted that with 80 soldiers, he could "ride through the whole Sioux nation." [5] William J. Fetterman's Headstone, Little Bighorn National Cemetery. On December 21, 1866, a large band of Cheyenne and Sioux – which included Crazy Horse – under the leadership of Red Cloud attacked a wood train
Twenty soldiers died during on-duty incidents during fiscal 2021, according to an upcoming safety report. The Top Killer of Soldiers, Army Vehicle Deaths Are Tied to Poor Training, Though Numbers Down
The largest action of the war was the 1866 Fetterman Fight, with 81 US soldiers killed; it was the worst military defeat suffered by the US Army on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later. After signing the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), Red Cloud led his people in the transition to reservation life.
Together with Crazy Horse, he led the united Lakota warriors in the Wagon Box Fight. However, this battle was a military failure. The Lakota did not fight as an organized unit, but rather as a group of individual warriors. This style of fighting, in combination with their inferior weaponry, resulted in the US soldiers being able to fend them off.