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On the verge of his retirement in August, 1876 at Fort Starke, a small Frontier Army post, aging cavalry veteran Nathan Cutting Brittles is given one last mission: to deal with a breakout by the Cheyenne and Arapaho from their reservation following the defeat of George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and prevent a new frontier war.
It is the third installment of Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", following two RKO Pictures releases: Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). [6] Wayne plays the lead in all three films, as Captain Kirby York in Fort Apache , then as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , and finally as a promoted Lieutenant Colonel Kirby ...
The 5th Cavalry Regiment ("Black Knights" [1]) is a historical unit of the United States Army that began its service on March 3, 1855, as the Second Cavalry Regiment. On August 3, 1861, it was redesignated as the 5th Cavalry Regiment following an act of Congress directing "that the two regiments of dragoons, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and the two regiments of cavalry shall hereafter be ...
Independent Company Oneida (New York) Cavalry: Cpt Daniel P. Mann; 4th United States Cavalry, Company A: Lt Thomas H. McCormick; 4th United States Cavalry, Company E: Cpt James B. McIntyre; U.S. Engineer Battalion: Cpt James C. Duane. Provost Guard: [6] Maj William H. Wood 2nd United States Cavalry, Companies E, F, H, and K: Cpt George A. Gordon
15th United States, 2nd Battalion: Maj John R. Edie, [19] Cpt William McManus 16th United States , 1st Battalion: Maj Robert E. A. Crofton 18th United States , 1st Battalion: Cpt George W. Smith
The film starred Strode as Sergeant Rutledge, a Black first sergeant in a colored regiment of the United States Cavalry, known as "Buffalo Soldiers". At a U.S. Army fort in the early 1880s, he is being tried by a court-martial for the rape and murder of a white girl as well as for the murder of the girl's father, who was the commanding officer ...
Michael Kovats de Fabriczy (often simply Michael Kovats; Hungarian: Kováts Mihály; 1724 [2] – May 11, 1779) was a Hungarian nobleman and cavalry officer [3] who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, in which he was killed in action.
United States Army, Major Eugene M. Baker, commanding. 2nd United States Cavalry Regiment. Company F, Second Lieutenant Gus Doane. Company G. Company H. Company L, Captain Lewis Thompson. 13th United States Infantry Regiment. Mounted Detachment, 55 men. Native Americans, Heavy Runner. Piegan Blackfeet. About 230, mostly unarmed women and children.