Regional1866 – 1868 · 2 years

Red Cloud's War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Estimated casualties

2.0Ksingle estimate · no range published

Conflict over the Bozeman Trail, resulting in treaty guaranteeing Lakota lands in Black Hills.

Belligerents2

United States
Lakota Sioux

ON THE MAPLakota / Sioux Territory

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Fetterman Massacre1866
Battle of Trail Ridge1866
Battle of Hayfield Fight1867
Battle of Wagon Box Fight1867

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Red Cloud's War (1866 – 1868). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/red-clouds-war · Sources & methodology