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    The Battle of Canyon Creek was a military engagement in Montana Territory between the Nez Perce Indians and the United States Army's 7th Cavalry. The battle...
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    The Battle of Camas Creek, August 20, 1877, was a raid by the Nez Perce people on a United States Army encampment in Idaho Territory and a subsequent...
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    attempt of Colonel Samuel D. Sturgis to capture them at the Battle of Canyon Creek near present-day Billings. However, the Crow and Bannock scouts of Sturgis...
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    Yellowstone River on the morning of 13 September, but Crow scouts reported the Nez Perce were moving up Canyon Creek six miles away. Seeing an opportunity...
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    Samuel D. Sturgis (category United States Army personnel of the Indian Wars)
    the Battle of Canyon Creek, the Indians, although outnumbered two to one, again escaped from his grasp. From 1881 until 1886, Sturgis was governor of the...
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    The Battle of White Bird Canyon was fought on June 17, 1877, in Idaho Territory. White Bird Canyon was the opening battle of the Nez Perce War between...
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    Historic Trail Nez Perce Trail Foundation The Nez Perce Battles Friends of Bear Paw, Big Hole & Canyon Creek Battlefields Archived 2015-04-22 at the Wayback Machine...
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    Ollokot (category Native American people of the Indian Wars)
    forces, in battles at Cottonwood, Clearwater, Big Hole, and Canyon Creek. Ollokot and 60 young men surrounded and pinned down a larger number of soldiers...
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    Perce tribe made their raid through this section and fought the Battle of Canyon Creek. While Harry Reed worked with a timber crew, Alice Reed worked at...
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  • Moore's Creek Bridge Battle of Long Island Battle of Harlem Heights Battle of Mamaroneck Battle of White Plains Battle of Fort Washington Battle of Trenton...
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    Frederick Benteen (category Battle of the Little Bighorn)
    campaign at the Battle of Canyon Creek, as well as for his earlier actions at the Little Bighorn. He testified at the Reno Court of Inquiry in 1879 in...
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    The Battle of Kelley Creek, also known as the Last Massacre, is often considered to be one of the last known massacres carried out between Native Americans...
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  • the defeat of the U.S. Army by the Nez Perce at the Battle of White Bird Canyon on June 17, General Oliver Otis Howard took personal command of the army...
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    and from 100 to 600 yards (91–549 m) in width. The canyon bottom along Cow Creek creates a corridor of travel from the northern Montana plains down to the...
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    Nez Perce flight through Yellowstone (category Lists of coordinates)
    pursuit of the Nez Perce whose trail led north into Montana. He would catch up with them on September 13 at the indecisive Battle of Canyon Creek.45°43′14″N...
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    City Creek is a small but historically important mountain stream that flows from City Creek Canyon and across part of Salt Lake City, Utah, and into the...
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    battle fought alongside Snake Creek at the base of Montana's Bears Paw Mountains only 40 miles (64 km) from the Canada–US border. A large majority of...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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    The Battle of Blanco Canyon was the decisive battle of Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie's initial campaign against the Comanche in West Texas and marked the first...
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    John Chowning Gresham (category American Indian Wars recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    combat in several battles during the American Indian wars including the Battle of Canyon Creek. He was assigned to the Department of Dakota until 1884...
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  • the 1960s, the state of Montana claims that the massacre site has been destroyed. The number Native Americans killed in the battle vary considerably, from...
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    James M. Bell (U.S. Army brigadier general) (category Date of birth not in Wikidata)
    (1876). He took part in the 1868 Battle of the Washita River and the 1877 Battle of Canyon Creek. Following Canyon Creek, Bell received brevet promotion...
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    Canyon, they were fairly well-armed. Their objective in the Battle of Cottonwood was "to engage the whites only long enough allow the safe passage of...
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    The Battle Creek massacre was a lynching of a Timpanogos group on March 5, 1849, by a group of 35 Mormon settlers at Battle Creek Canyon near present-day...
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    Crow War 1887 Battle of Crow Agency Apaches Nez Perce 1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon 1877 Battle of Cottonwood 1877 Battle of Canyon Creek 1877 Bannock...
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    The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne...
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    The Battle of Ash Hollow, also known as the Battle of Blue Water Creek or the Harney Massacre, was an engagement of the First Sioux War, fought on September...
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    Backbone Creek Whites Creek China Creek Rattlesnake Creek Gas Creek Grizzly Creek Canyon Creek Big East Fork Canyon Creek Little East Fork Canyon Creek Oregon...
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    of Montana Bannack, Montana Territory, first territorial capital 1864-1865 Battle of Bear Paw Battle of Canyon Creek Battle of Cedar Creek Battle of Powder...
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  • Massacre Canyon may refer to: Battle of Massacre Canyon, Nebraska, U.S. (1873) Massacre Canyon, 1954 film Massacre Canyon - Black Range, New Mexico, U...
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