Since the arrival of white Europeans on the American continent in the 15th century, the catastrophe of the local indigenous peoples (Indians) has begun, starting with the Spaniards, whites and Indians have been in constant conflict, of course, the well-armed white colonists are naturally not able to compete with the extremely civilized Indians.
Thus, under the blows of the whites' elite iron cold weapons, gunpowder weapons, and cavalry, the Indians suffered heavy casualties, and by the eighteenth century, after the founding of the United States, the Indians were no longer able to compete with the white government, but the United States and British Canada wanted to continue to develop, so that a new round of conflict began.
At the end of the eighteenth century, the United States began a huge "westward expansion movement" at the end of the eighteenth century, and the United States government also began to lead the westward expansion, using purchases and wars to annex France, Spain, British colonies and large areas of Mexican land, after which the United States government began to "deal" with the Indians on the land, in May 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Migration Act to escort the Indians out of the area east of the Mississippi River.
The "Westward Movement" greatly promoted the development of the United States, but it was a complete history of blood and tears for the Indians, who migrated more than 45,000 Indians westward during the reign of President Jackson (March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837). The Jackson administration, at a cost of $68 million and thirty-two million acres (130,000 square kilometers) of western land, acquired 100 million acres (400,000 square kilometers) of Indian land, and white colonists took deep root in the newly opened land, but the Indians suffered and even died.
Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States, was regarded by whites as a generation of heroes for his pioneering efforts
However, where there was oppression, there was resistance, and the brave And fierce Indian War fought back, stubbornly sniping at the whites, and the North American Indian War began, the initial battlefield was the "Great Plains".
Great Plains, also known as the Great Plains and North American Prairies, is a vast plain area in central North America, roughly located west of the Mississippi River, east of the Rocky Mountains, and north of the Grande River. The natural vegetation is dominated by grass. In 1860, the Great Plains were inhabited by about 250,000 Indians, and at the beginning of the Westward Movement, this was the first area pioneered by American colonists.
The first is the famous "Red Cloud War", in which the Sioux attacked the U.S. army with guerrilla tactics under the leadership of the Chief Red Cloud of the Lakota (a tribe of the Sioux), causing heavy casualties in the U.S. army.
In 1868, the Sioux reached an agreement with the U.S. government that the Sioux agreed to concentrate on a reservation in the Dakota Territory west of Missouri, where whites were not allowed to enter without the permission of the Indians. The Red Cloud War was one of the few wars in which indians won against the whites.
Red Cloud (Lacota: Maȟpíya Lúta; English: Red Cloud; 1822 – December 10, 1909), American Indian chief, was one of the most important leaders of Oglala-Lakota, leading the war against American colonists between 1868 and 1909.
However, after the discovery of gold in Montenegro in 1872, a large influx of gold miners broke the treaty between the Sioux Indians and the U.S. government, and the living space of the Indians was further oppressed, and the Great Plains region was suddenly overcast.
One of the most famous wars is the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
At that time, because white immigrants were frequently attacked by Indians, the United States government sent troops to suppress the Indians, and lieutenant colonel George Armstrong Custer, the commander of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment, was ordered to enter the army to suppress them. On June 25, 1876, Custer led more than 200 cavalry, and major Marcus Reynolds and Captain Frederick Banting divided their troops into three routes to attack the Black Mountain Valley in Montana. Unexpectedly, Renault and Banting encountered obstacles and retreated on their own.
Custer, however, went deep alone, which led him to encounter more than 2,500 Sioux warriors led by the chieftains "Crazy Horse" and the shaman "Sitting Bull".
The Indians had long been ambushed, waving blankets and making noise, scaring away the horses of the cavalry, and the Users of the Indian Cavalry attacked with cold weapons or hot weapons captured from the whites...
In this battle, the white army totaled only 647 people, and the Indians had more than 2500, so it ended in a total victory for the Indian warriors, the American army was killed 268 people, Custer was killed, the team was almost completely annihilated, and the Indians only killed more than 40 people.
This was the greatest victory ever won by the Indian army against the white army, but they also suffered a frenzied retaliation from the American army, and the Americans adopted scorched-earth tactics to exterminate the American bison on the Great Plains and cut off their food sources. In order to preserve the tribe, in early May 1877, the Mad Horse and other chiefs surrendered to Fort Robinson, Nebraska. However, he eventually died, and in September 1877, he was executed by the American army on suspicion of escaping from prison. The shaman "sitting on the bull" went into exile in Canada, and later surrendered to the US military and received amnesty. Soon after, the U.S. government sent police to arrest him on the grounds that the Indian tribal special religious ceremony "Ghost Dance" was suspected of rebellion, and he was killed in a gun battle on December 15, 1890.
Of course, the battle was short-lived, the Indians were not white opponents after all, and ultimately could not defend their land, however, this victory is still a symbol of the Indian people's invincibility, forever recorded in history, this battle was made into the movie "General Custer", and also became the second act final level in the "Flame and Shadow" chapter of the battle of the computer game Age of Empires III: The Battle of the Chiefs (the game will support the player's controllable character as crazy horse).
Author: Yun Fan