What the records say
- When
- 3 Sep 1855
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 41.30° N, 102.12° W
- Description
- 1855 battle of the First Sioux War
Battle of Ash Hollow
1855 massacre during the First Sioux War
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 2 and 3, 1855, between United States Army soldiers under Brig. Gen. William S. Harney and a band of the Sicangu Lakota along the Platte River in present-day Garden County, Nebraska.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “First Sioux War: Battle of Ash Hollow – U.S. forces defeat a band of Brulé Lakota in present-day Garden County, Nebraska”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei der Schlacht von Ash Hollow werden 85 Angehörige des Stammes der Brulé-Lakota, viele von ihnen Frauen und Kinder, von US-Truppen erschossen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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