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  • Major George Augustus Armes, (USA) (1844 - 1919)
    Major George Augustus Armes (USA) Son of Josiah Orcutt Armes (1807-1873) and Caroline Olive Older (1801-1862). Husband of Lucy Hamilton Kerr (2/9/1851-1927, daughter of John Bozman Kerr and Lucy ...
  • William Gougar (1782 - 1861)
    m. Catherine Abel 23 May 1809.Black Hawk War Veteran: Holder Scisson Company, in Major Nathaniel Buckmaster's Battalion/Brigade.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy : Jan 29 2024, 20:49:29 UT...
  • William Rankin (1836 - 1916)
    Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a Farrier in the United States Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor as a Private in Company F, 4th US Cavalry for action on Septe...
  • Frank W. Lohnes (1840 - 1889)
    Indian Wars Medal of Honor Recipient. He was issued the award on July 24, 1865 for his actions as a private with Company H, 1st Nebraska Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, US Army. on May 12, 1865, at Gilman...
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    Captain Harry George Trout (1861 - 1905)
    1st Lt, 2nd U. S. Cavalry Rgt.; in May 1893 joined his regiment at Ft. Wingate, N M and spent four years there along with USMA classmate William Bean • 3135 Cullums Register No. 3135 served in the ...

Indian Wars is the name used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts between White settlers or the federal government and the native peoples of North America. (This is a Master Project. We need help with expanding and fleshing out this project!)

The wars were the result of the arrival of European colonizers who continuously expanded their territory pushing the indigenous populations westwards. The wars were spurred by ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, that held that Anglo-Saxon Europeans were destined to expand from coast to coast on the American continent, and which resulted in the policy of Indian removal by which Indigenous peoples were removed from the areas where Europeans were settling forcefully or by means of voluntary exchange of territory through treaties.

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Notes

This is the "master" or "umbrella" project for a series of conflicts, from 1637's Pequot War through the Wounded Knee massacre and "closing" of the American frontier in 1890.

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