Regional1847 – 1855 · 8 years

Cayuse War

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United States

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

War between the Cayuse and American settlers in Oregon after the Whitman massacre.

Belligerents3

United States
Cayuse Indians
Massacre

ON THE MAPUnited States (1848)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Whitman Massacre1847
Battle of Deschutes1848
Battle of Tucannon1848
Battle of Willow1848

Sources

Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Cayuse War (1847 – 1855). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/cayuse-war · Sources & methodology