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The Fetterman Fight, also known as the Fetterman Massacre or the Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands or the Battle of a Hundred Slain, [1] was a battle during Red Cloud's War on December 21, 1866, between a confederation of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and a detachment of the United States Army, based at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming.
Nov 16, 2009 · With 81 fatalities, the Fetterman Massacre was the army’s worst defeat in the West until the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Further attacks eventually forced the army to...
Near Fort Phil Kearny in December 1866 in what’s now northern Wyoming, Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors ambushed and killed Capt. William Fetterman and his entire command of 80 men. Fetterman’s arrogance has long been blamed for the disaster, but new evidence shows a more complex and nuanced story.
Sep 14, 2011 · Capt. William J. Fetterman and 80 men killed by Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians near Fort Phil Kearny, the worst military disaster for the U.S. Army in the Indian Wars other than the Custer defeat.
The Sioux and their allies lured a U.S. Army patrol at Fort Phil Kearny into a deadly trap in the winter of 1866 known as the Fetterman Massacre.
Jun 12, 2006 · The Fetterman Fight, fought on a December morning 131 years ago, was the worst military blunder of the Western Indian wars prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876.
Visiting Fetterman Fight Site. Near Fort Phil Kearny in December 1866 in what’s now northern Wyoming, Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors ambushed and killed Capt. William Fetterman and his entire command of 80 men.
Learn about the Fetterman Massacre, a devastating defeat for the U.S. Army in the 1860s Dakota Territory. Read about the ambush of Captain William J. Fetterman and his 80 men by 2,000 Native American warriors.
…in the massacre of Captain William J. Fetterman and his troop of 80 men (December 21, 1866) as well as in the Wagon Box fight (August 2, 1867), both near Fort Phil Kearny, in Wyoming Territory. Refusing to honour the reservation provisions of the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868),…
Jan 1, 1999 · Based upon Carrington's allegations, historical consensus indicts Captain Fetterman for arrogantly disobeying orders, foolishly leading eighty men into a fatal ambush by 1,800 Lakota, Cheyenne, and Araphoe warriors, and committing mutual suicide with Captain Brown when hope was gone.
