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This was one of the many wars that made up the French and Indian Wars. See the Master Project Indian Wars The summary is taken from French and Indian War and Atlas of the North American Indian, Revised Edition, 2000. ==French and Indian War==What most historians call the French and Indian War was really the final conflict in a long series of wars among the the European colonial powers for world...
=Battle of the Little Bighorn= Wikipedia The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans involved, as the Massacre at Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred on June 25 and 26, 1876 near the...
King Philip's War, sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, or Metacom's Rebellion, was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–78. The war is named for the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, who had adopted the English name "King Philip" in hono...
From Wikipedia Lord Dunmore's War — or Dunmore's War — was a 1774 conflict between the Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo American Indian nations.The Governor of Virginia during the conflict was John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore — Lord Dunmore. He asked the Virginia House of Burgesses to declare a state of war with the hostile Indian nations and order up an elite volunteer militia forc...
==Indian Massacres Cultural clashes between European settlers and Natives lasted for over four hundred years, from isolated incidents to large scale, organized wars. If the casualty was a civilian, of any background, our goal is to capture their death in a project on this list of “Indian Massacres.” So please add profiles to the massacre projects listed below; those projects are also found in t...
From Cornstalk's Raid on the Greenbrier - 1763 by A. E. Ewing. West Virginia Review, June 1936. pp. 266-268We may sing about our Georgia, Colorado, Michigan and other moons, but the Pontiac moon of May, 1763, had blood on it. The Algonquin chieftains, in secret council near Detroit, summoned by king Pontiac April 27, 1763, agreed to attack all the English posts recently surrendered by the Frenc...
==Turner Falls Massacre Captain William Turner and 150 militia volunteers attacked a fishing Indian camp at present-day Turners Falls, Massachusetts. At least 100 women and children were murdered in the attack.===SummaryFrom Turner’s Falls Project >The Native American community known as Peskeompskut-Wissatinnewag was located in the vicinity of current day Turners Falls and is the location of a ...
Sub Project to the Indian Wars Project====project goals===# To link GENi profiles of those who served in the 8th, particularly lower rank and file enlisted men# To provide some perspective of what these men were like# To chronicle those who were at Wounded Knee in its immediate aftermath ~• The opening profile and entry to this study is Pvt. Clarence Van Buren Fister, Company C. He is a distan...
Surprise Valley Geologically, the Surprise Valley appears to be part of Nevada rather than California... "In one early account, Surprise Valley is said to have been known by the local Indians as “Kibeningnaredols” which means “Valley of the Long Mountains”." In the early years of while immigrant settlement, the area was accessed by the Applegate Trail: "fifteen men on horseback to set out in...
Victims and combatants of the Fort Mims Massacre (Battle) occurring in Baldwin County, Alabama on August 30th, 1813 during the Redstick War of 1813-1814. References * A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813 - 1814 by Gregory Waselkov
This project is to research and include all those involved in this war that lasted from 1763 until 1766. It is said to have included 3000+ British soldiers and thousands of members of 14 Native American tribes. The conflict is named after its most famous participant, the Ottawa leader Pontiac; variations include "Pontiac's War", "Pontiac's Rebellion", and "Pontiac's Uprising". An early name for...
War (1722–1725), also known as Lovewell's War, Father Rale's War, Greylock's War, the Three Years War, the 4th Indian War[2] or the Wabanaki-New England War of 1722–1725,[3] was a series of battles between British settlers of the three northernmost British colonies of North America of the time and the Wabanaki Confederacy (specifically Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Abenaki), who were allied with New F...