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Battle of Washita River

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Washita River · Oklahoma

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 27 November 1868, George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry attacked Black Kettle's Southern Cheyenne camp on the Washita River, killing the chief and many villagers in a dawn assault widely regarded as a massacre during the Southern Plains campaigns.

Belligerents2

United States
Southern Cheyenne

Conflict graph

PART OFAmerican Indian Wars - Long-term · Comanche Wars

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Washita River
Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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