Conflicts

Minnesota

115 engagements recorded

Silvernale Phase Conflict – Red Wing Area

Silvernale Site Conflict – Minnesota

Kathio Site Woodland Conflicts

Cambria Site Conflict – Minnesota

Cambria Phase Conflict – Minnesota River

Oilcan Site Fortification – Minnesota

Oneota Expansion Conflict – Blue Earth Phase

Battle of Hudson Bay (Fort Nelson, 1697)

Ojibwe-Dakota Battle at Mille Lacs 1745

Battle of Lake Pokegama 1825

Sandy Lake Tragedy — Ojibwe Removal (1850)

Sandy Lake Tragedy — Ojibwe Removal (1850)

Treaty of Mendota (August 5, 1851)

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (July 23, 1851)

Spirit Lake Massacre — Inkpaduta's Raid (March 1857)

Spirit Lake Massacre Aftermath — Minnesota Frontier Defense

Battle of Birch Coulee — Burial Detail Ambush (September 2, 1862)

Battle of New Ulm (First)

Camp Release — Dakota Prisoner Camp

Minnesota — Action at New Ulm (Federal Relief Column)

Battle of Redwood Agency — Trader Stores Attack

Battle of Fort Ridgely — Artillery Defense

Minnesota — Wood Lake — Sibley's Advance

New Ulm Second Attack

Fort Snelling Dakota Internment — Winter 1862

Dakota War — Hutchinson Fight 1862

Simon Anawangmani and the Friendly Dakota 1862

Mankato Execution Site — Dakota War Aftermath

Acton Township Killings

Upper Sioux Agency — Sisseton and Wahpeton Resistance to War

Forest City Minnesota — Stockade Defense

Lower Sioux Agency Attack

Massacre at Lake Shetek

New Ulm First Attack — Dakota War (August 19, 1862)

Sacred Heart Creek Massacre

Mankato Executions — 38 Dakota Hanged (December 26, 1862)

Meeker County Raids — Acton Aftermath 1862

Dakota War – Battle of Birch Coulee

Mexican-American War

Action at Hutchinson Minnesota

Camp Release to Mankato March 1862

First Battle of New Ulm

Lower Sioux Agency Massacre

Battle of Birch Coulee

Beaver Creek Massacre — Minnesota (August 1862)

New Ulm First Attack

Battle of Wood Lake

Mankato Execution — Dakota War Aftermath

Redwood Ferry Ambush — Dakota War Opening (August 18, 1862)

Fort Ridgely First Attack

Battle of Yellow Medicine — Captive Release

Lake Shetek Massacre

Fort Ridgely First Attack — Dakota War (August 20, 1862)

Minnesota River Valley Sack — Beaver Falls and Surrounding Townships

Milford Township Massacre

Norway Lake Massacre

Fort Ridgely Defense – Dakota War Connection

Battle of Fort Ridgely — Second Assault

Redwood Ferry Massacre

Mankato Mass Execution — 38 Dakota Hanged (December 26, 1862)

Battle of Wood Lake — Decisive Engagement (September 23, 1862)

Battle of Wood Lake (Dakota War 1862)

Battle of Fort Ridgely — First Assault

Attack on Sacred Heart Creek (August 1862)

Siege of Fort Abercrombie

Fort Ridgely Attacks

Battle of Acton

Battle of Apple River Fort

Sioux Uprising — Battle of Birch Coulee 1862

Milford Massacre — Dakota War (August 18, 1862)

Ambush at Redwood Agency

Yellow Medicine Agency Attack — Dakota War (August 18, 1862)

Battle of Wood Lake – Dakota War

Camp Release — Mass Dakota Surrender (September 26, 1862)

Battle of Birch Coulee — Messenger Attack (September 2, 1862)

Yellow Medicine Agency Attack — Dakota War (August 18, 1862)

New Ulm Second Attack — Dakota War (August 23, 1862)

First Attack on Fort Ridgely

Acton Township Killings — Dakota War Spark (August 17, 1862)

Captain Marsh Ambush at Redwood Ferry

Second Attack on Fort Ridgely

Fort Snelling Internment Camp 1862–1863

Redwood Ferry Ambush

Redwood Agency Attack

Yellow Medicine Agency Attack

Battle of Birch Coulee — Night Phase

Fort Ridgely Second Attack — Dakota War (August 22, 1862)

Kandiyohi County Massacres 1862

Mankato District Raids 1862

Battle of Lone Tree Lake

Battle of New Ulm

Battle of Fort Ridgely (Second Attack)

Battle of Birch Coulee (Dakota War 1862)

Dakota War – Battle of Wood Lake

Mexican-American War

Minnesota Uprising – Wood Lake Battle

Fort Ridgely Second Attack

Battle of Fort Ridgely (First)

Battle of Wood Lake — Sibley's Decisive Victory (September 23, 1862)

Dakota War – Siege of Fort Ridgely Second Attack

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