Significant1874 – 1875 · 1 year

Red River War

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Texas Panhandle · Palo Duro Canyon

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

A U.S. Army campaign of 1874-1875 to drive the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho off the Southern Plains and onto reservations in Indian Territory; the destruction of the tribes' horse herds and supplies at Palo Duro Canyon broke their resistance.

Belligerents2

United States
Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho

Conflict graph

PART OFAmerican Indian Wars - Long-term · Texas-Indian Wars

SUB-CONFLICTS · 5

Battle of Buffalo Wallow1874
Battle of Lost Valley, Texas1874
Battle of Lymans Wagon Train1874
Battle of Palo Duro1874
Battle of Sappa Creek1875

Sources

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

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