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Battle of Platte Bridge

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United States

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Platte Bridge (1865), part of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian War. Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapahoe defeated United States.

Belligerents4

Cheyenne
Sioux
Arapahoe
United States

ON THE MAPCheyenneLakota / Sioux TerritoryUnited States (1860)

Conflict graph

PART OFColorado War

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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