Indian Wars Time Table List of American Indian Wars - Wikipedia https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1008.html American Indian Wars - Wikipedia
Thanks for posting these interesting facts. I wonder how many were killed on both sides compared to WW2 and WW1. Stefan.
For the Indians, warfare accounted for an insignificant number compared to the diseases brought by European settlers. Some estimates suggest that 50-60% of the pre-contact population died from various outbreaks.
Shame we haven't got the "Negative Reputation" button like we had it the old days. I'd give Clive neg rep for posting such a shit link.
BBC Two - Fort Apache The first of John Ford's cavalry trilogy, in which a commanding officer, bitter at his demotion after the Civil War, takes his resentment out on the men of Fort Apache, a remote outpost in the Arizona desert. He is determined to tighten up discipline but eventually shows his ignorance of American Indian behaviour when he leads his troops into a deadly confrontation. Based on a 1947 story and released in March 1948 Fort Apache (film) - Wikipedia A bit like Lancers and the Charge of the Light Brigade ;-)
I have read a little about the wars against the Plains Indians (1862-1877) and I must say that it's an ugly story. Neither side stands out for its moral conduct. The US Army (all right, Colorado volunteers) had that beast in human form Colonel Chivington, and the Sioux had a similar character in Inkpaduta. There were better men on both sides, but the Western frontier was a savage, Darwinian place where the weak (women, children, anyone of any race who was caught alone and defenseless on the plains) went to the wall. We have romanticized all this in our movies and popular culture, of course, but as far as I am concerned you can take that romance and put it in a certain dark place and leave it there. That said, I think it sad and ironic that the one US Army officer who is best remembered from those wars is Custer, who was of course defeated. The US Army finally won the war on the Plains, and it did so despite poor training, inadequate numbers, and miserable funding. Leadership was a vital factor in the victory, but the leaders who finally beat Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, et. al., have been largely forgotten. Look up Nelson Miles, George Crook, Ranald Mackenzie, Eugene Carr, Guy V. Henry, William Hazen, George Forsyth, and Plenty Coups (Crow chief and scout). They were excellent leaders, but who remembers them now?
I agree . I’ve read up on it too and it was a brutal cultural war where each side often became as bad as each other and the few good men of both parties work was undone at almost every turn . The Native American culture was quite frankly a brutal and horrible culture by any mid C19th standards and the US Army often became as brutal in many ways . Deeds and acts of Russian front standards
Yes, I read this Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains: Amazon.co.uk: Goodrich, Thomas: 0011557029079: Books in the early 1990s. It made it clear Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves sugar coated view of Plains Indian life wasn't entirely accurate. I highly recommend it if the Indian Wars are of interest.
French and Indian War was a complex one. Lots of intrigue and shifting alliances among all tribes with the French, British and each other. Britain had to increase taxes on the Americans to pay for it and we know what that led to.