Sioux Wars
August 19, 1854 – January 1891 · Great Plains
Result United States victory, Sioux moved to reservations
The United States fought a series of wars against bands of the Sioux on the Great Plains. The conflicts began with the Grattan fight in 1854 and ended with the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.
United States
Comanche
Battles 11
- Grattan massacre August 19, 1854 · Lakota victory
- Battle of Ash Hollow September 3, 1855 · United States victory
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Dakota War of 1862 August 17 – December 26, 1862 · United States victory
- Attack at the Lower Sioux Agency August 18, 1862 · Santee Sioux victory
- Battles of New Ulm August 19, 1862 · Santee Sioux defeat (attacks repulsed; city temporarily evacuated following day)
- Battle of Fort Ridgely August 20–22, 1862 · United States victory
- Battle of Wood Lake September 23, 1862 · United States victory
- Battle of Big Mound July 24, 1863 · U.S. victory
- Battle of Stony Lake July 28, 1863 · United States victory
- Battle of Whitestone Hill September 3–5, 1863 · United States victory
- Battle of Killdeer Mountain July 28–29, 1864 · United States victory
- Battle of the Badlands August 7–9, 1864 · United States victory
- Powder River Expedition (1865) July 1 – October 4, 1865 · Stalemate
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Red Cloud's War 1866 – 1868 · Native American victory
- Fetterman Fight December 21, 1866 · Native American victory
- Hayfield Fight August 1, 1867 · U.S. victory
- Ghost Dance War December 29, 1890 – January 15, 1891 · United States victory