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Sand Creek massacre The Sand Creek massacre was a massacre in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the command of U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Native Americans, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. The location has been designated the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic ...
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- On May 25, 1856, the militant abolitionist JOHN BROWN led a raid against proslavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, killing five persons: James Doyle and his two sons, Allen Wilkinson, and William Sherman, all proslavery partisans.
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James Beckwourth 1 Early life of slavery. 2  Into the Fur Trade, Indian fighter, and black chief of the Crow Nation. 3  U.S. Army soldier, wagon master, and Indian trader. 4  United States Indian agent and scout during Sand Creek Massacre and Red Cloud's War. 5  Death. 6  Marriage and family. 7  Beckwourth's frontier memoir. 8  In popular culture.
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John Brown Biography On the evening of October 16, 1859, Brown led a party of 21 men on a raid of the federal armory of Harpers Ferry in Virginia (now West Virginia), holding dozens of men hostage with the plan of inspiring a slave insurrection.
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- At the battle’s climax Virginia cavalry under Colonel James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart arrived on the field and charged into a confused mass of New Yorkers, sending them fleetly to the rear. The Federal retreat rapidly deteriorated as narrow bridges, overturned wagons, and heavy artillery fire added to the confusion.
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- Army in 1836 and 1837. The road that would lead to the Trail of Tears. for the Creeks began 23 years earlier when a. civil war erupted in their nation. The Creek. War of 1813-1814 spilled over to the whites. and ended when three American armies. invaded the Creek lands. The destruction of the last major Creek.
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Learning About Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) Pregnancy Loss and Other Complications. APS is associated with miscarriages as well as other complications of pregnancy. Most studies have estimated the prevalence of aPL antibodies among pregnant women at 5 percent or less; most of these women do not have any signs or symptoms of APS.
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Cabin Creek Battlefield Later, on July 20, the First Indian Home Guard skirmished with Confederates. The Second Battle of Cabin Creek, September 19, 1864, was another attempt to capture Federal supplies en route to Fort Gibson.
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John Brown ...mob sacked the town of Lawrence, an antislavery stronghold, on May 21, 1856. On May 24–25 John Brown, a free-state partisan, led a small party in a raid upon some proslavery settlers on Pottawatomie Creek, murdered five men in cold blood, and left their gashed and mutilated bodies as a warning to the slaveholders. Not even the U.S. Capitol was safe from the violence. On May 22...
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Myall Creek massacre Massacre [edit]. A group of eleven stockmen, consisting of assigned convicts and former convicts, ten of them men of European extraction and one African (John Johnstone), led by a squatter, John Fleming from Mungie Bundie Run near Moree, arrived at Henry Dangar 's Myall Creek station on 10 June 1838.he Myall Creek massacre and the subsequent trial and hanging of some of the offenders had a profound effect on the outside settlers and their dealing with indigenous people throughout all sections the colonial Australian frontiers.
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Ruby Ridge Incident Incident at Ruby Ridge. In the second day of a standoff at Randy Weaver’s remote northern Idaho cabin, FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi wounds Randy Weaver, Kevin Harrison, and kills Weaver’s wife, Vicki.
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- After a spring of bloody fighting, this last major attempt by the Creeks to save their lands was crushed.U.S. soldiers and state militia troops rounded up thousands of Creek men, women and children, herding them into concentration camps.
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- THE BATTLE OF BLUE WATER. S. Harney, attacked and destroyed a Lakota village located three miles north on Blue Creek. fight became known as the Battle of Blue Water, sometimes the Battle of Ash Hollow after the nearby landmark, or the Harney Massacre. Laramie in 1854. Creek were the guilty parties.
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- by Dale CoxOn March 27, 1814, U.S. troops under the command of Major General Andrew Jackson of Tennessee stormed the fortifications of the Creek Indian village of Tohopeka in Alabama.
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- McClellan sent two corps across Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg to attack the Confederate left flank at dawn on September 17. His plan was to follow this assault with an attack on the Confederate right, and if Lee weakened his center to defend the flanks, to assault the center with his reserves.
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- General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson, frequently labeled the Confederate army's most brilliant strategist and right-hand man to Robert E. Lee, was born January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia).
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August 30, 1813: Worst Indian Massacre of Settlers in the South (Fort Mims Massacre) August 30, 1813: Worst Indian Massacre of Settlers in the South (Fort Mims Massacre) 30. A Brief History. On August 30, 1813, a force of about 1,000 warriors of a faction of the Creek Nation Native Americans known as the “Red Sticks” attacked Fort Mims in Alabama, killing almost all its defenders and many civilians as well.
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- City History On July 29, 1847 a group of pioneers known as the Mississippi Company, led by John Holladay, entered the Salt Lake Valley. Within weeks after their arrival, they discovered a free flowing, spring fed stream, which they called Spring Creek (near Kentucky Avenue).
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Battle of Moores Creek Bridge See also: Moore's Creek Bridge (Battle) From February 15 to 21, 1776, the days leading up to the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, Whig forces under commander Colonel James Moore camped on Rockfish Creek.
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- For more accurate information contact the Sand Creek Massacre, National Historic Site, NPS in Kiowa County, Colorado where staff can put the curious and the researchers in touch with a body of bona fide Sand Creek scholars. Sincerely, Jeff C. Campbell, Kiowa Co., CO.
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Civil War John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. During the 1856 conflict in Kansas, Brown commanded forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie. Brown's followers killed five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie. In 1859, Brown led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry that ended with the multi-racial group's capture. Brown's trial resulted in his conviction and a sentence of death by hanging.
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Waco, Texas: Where A Part Of America'S Heart And Soul Died. By Robert McCurry For President Clinton, Janet Reno, the FBI, and the media to even suggest that David Koresh is solely responsible for what has happened in Waco and that Koresh and the Branch Davidians set fire to their own home or committed suicide rather than surrender is repugnant and an insult to this author as it no doubt is to millions of other intelligent, informed Americans.
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The Comanche War The Comanche triumph was short-lived. On August 12, at Plum Creek near present-day Lockhart, they were intercepted by Texan forces under Felix Huston and Edward Burleson. The Indians were caught by surprise and routed, with a loss of more than eighty men and most of their plunder.
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History of the National Park Service Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, a unit of the National Park System, is located near Eads, CO. Click here for the National Register of Historic Places registration file: text and photos. The park entrance is approximately 30 miles north and east of Eads, along County Road W a mile east of County Road 54 or several miles west of County Road 59.
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry On Sunday night, October 16, 1859, Brown left four of his men behind as a rear-guard: his son, Owen Brown, Barclay Coppock, and Frank Meriam; he led the rest into the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Stonewall Jackson This article is about the Confederate general. For other uses, see Stonewall Jackson (disambiguation). Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and the best-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia, under Robert E. Lee.