Battle of Honsinger Bluff

Battle of Honsinger Bluff
Part of the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873
Date August 4, 1873 Location Custer County Montana, U.S. territory since May 7, 1868 46°29′23″N 105°55′05″W / 46.48972°N 105.91806°W / 46.48972; -105.91806 (Big Hill)[1] Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Lakota	United States
Commanders and leaders
Rain in the Face	George Armstrong Custer
Units involved
	7th United States Cavalry
Strength
~200 Warriors	~91 Soldiers, 4 Civilians
Casualties and losses
3 wounded	3 killed, 1 wounded

The Battle of Honsinger Bluff was a conflict between the United States Army and the Sioux people on August 4, 1873 along the Yellowstone River near present-day Miles City, Montana. This was a U.S. territory that was acquired from the Crow Nation in the year 1868. The main combatants were units of the U.S. 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, and Native Americans from the village of the Hunkpapa medicine man, Sitting Bull, many of whom would clash with Custer again approximately three years later at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in the Crow Indian Reservation.^[2]