Salvete Omnes,
Christmas almost is here, but today let us celebrate and commemorate another American battle between the Great Plains peoples and US Army.
today is another, 157th anniversary, of the battle known as the Fetterman Fight or Fetterman Massacre, or the Battle of the Hundred Slain, fought between the US Army troops (cavalry and infantry) and Teton Lakota (Sioux) & their Cheyenne allies.
On archive world library you can borrow a very fine book by Shannon D. Smith - Give Me eighty Men.. The book represents cutting edge research into the battle and its sources and historiography.
Hail to the warriors and soldiers who fought in this battle, and to their horses - a true American Epic.
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| J.K. Ralston's painting of the battle - JK Ralston et al @ copyright |
Pacem Aeternam to all
Valete
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