CRAZY HORSE

Born Tashunka Witco, near Rapid City South Dakota, by the age of twelve Crazy Horse he had killed his first buffalo and possessed his own stable of horses.

On August 19th 1855, at the age of thirteen he witnessed U.S. troops destroying villages and confiscating Native American possessions during General William Harney's expedition along the Oregon trail.

At age twenty his reputation grew when he joined Chief Red Cloud's war to resist the building of the Bozeman Trail 1865 - 68. Crazy Horse played a key role in destroying Captain William Fetterman's Brigade of eighty one men at Fort Kearny in 1866.

Crazy Horse would not lay down his weapons after the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 and disappeared onto the open plains where he soon found himself war chief of all the Oglalas.

Crazy Horse resisted American encroachment on Lakota territory by attacking the numerous surveying party's sent into the Black Hills in search of Gold.

On January 31st 1876. All nomadic tribes were ordered by the U.S government back to the reservations. Crazy Horse refused and led his peoples into the surrounding hills.

General George Crook led a force to capture him. But Crazy Horse had set up an ambush and severely mauled Crook at the Battle of Rosebud Creek, killing twenty eight and wounding forty others.

After the Oglala victory, Crazy Horse joined all the plains tribes along with Sitting Bull for the upcoming Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Where on June 25th, two thousand plains Indians surrounded, attacked and annihilated two hundred and sixty eight men of General George Armstrong Custer's seventh cavalry. Following the Lakota victory, Sitting Bull and his followers fled to Canada, but Crazy Horse remained to continue the fight against U.S. General Nelson Miles that winter.

On January 8th 1877, at Wolf Mountain on the tongue river in Montana, Crazy Horse led eight hundred warriors against General Miles.

Unknown to Crazy Horse, Miles was equipped with cannons and gatling machine guns which decimated the the Oglala charge. The Indians were forced to withdrawal and later that night retreated under the cover of darkness.

However by May 1877, the Oglala situation was dire and hopeless, surrounded and under constant cannon fire. Crazy Horse had no further options but to led his one thousand starving and weary followers to Fort Robinson in Northern Nebraska.

General Crook had him arrested. Four months later on September 5th 1877, during a prisoner transfer Crazy Horse began to resist, where he was then bayoneted in the back by a young soldier and died shortly after.

CRAZY HORSE

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