Battle of Pease Bottom

Battle of Pease Bottom
Part of the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873
DateAugust 11, 1873
Location
present-day Treasure County, Montana, U.S. territory since May 7, 1868
Result United States Victory
Belligerents
 United States Lakota Sioux
Commanders and leaders
United States George A. Custer Sitting Bull
Strength
~500 soldiers ~400 warriors
Casualties and losses
3 killed, 4 wounded 3 killed, 1 wounded

The Battle of Pease Bottom, also called the Battle of the Bighorn River was a conflict between the United States Army and the Sioux on August 11, 1873, along the Yellowstone River opposite the mouth of the Bighorn River near present-day Custer, Montana. The main combatants were units of the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel 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.[1]

  1. ^ Lubetkin, M. John (2006). Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, The Sioux, and the Panic of 1873. Norman, Oklahoma, USA: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3740-1.