Big Horn Expedition

Big Horn Expedition
Part of the Great Sioux War of 1876
DateMarch 1–26, 1876
Location
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Cheyenne
Oglala Lakota Sioux
 United States
Commanders and leaders
Old Bear
He Dog
George R. Crook
Joseph J. Reynolds
Strength
~250 883
Casualties and losses
4–6 killed, including women and children
1–3 wounded
4 killed+1 DOW
8 wounded
67 injured[1]

This event should not be confused with the Powder River Expedition (1865).

The Big Horn Expedition, or Bighorn Expedition, was a military operation of the United States Army against the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming Territory and Montana Territory. Although soldiers destroyed one Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota village at the Battle of Powder River, the expedition solidified Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne resistance against the United States attempt to force them to sell the Black Hills and live on a reservation, beginning the Great Sioux War of 1876.[2]

  1. ^ 1876 Annual Report of the Secretary of War .p.29
  2. ^ Greene, Jerome A. Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994, p. xvi