Significant1863 – 1865 · 2 years

Colorado War

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Colorado Territory · Kansas · Nebraska

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

The Colorado War (1863-1865) was an armed conflict on the central Great Plains between the U.S. Army and Colorado militia and the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota and Kiowa; it included the Sand Creek Massacre and retaliatory raids along the South Platte.

Belligerents2

United States
Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota and Kiowa

ON THE MAPUnited States (1860)

Conflict graph

PART OFAmerican Indian Wars - Long-term

SUB-CONFLICTS · 8

Sand Creek Massacre1864
Battle of Ash Creek1864
Battle of Cedar Canyon1864
Battle of Sand Creek1864
Battle of Julesburg1865
Battle of Platte Bridge1865
Battle of Powder1865
Battle of Tongue1865

Sources

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

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