Conflicts

Montana

336 engagements recorded

Medicine Crow Site Massacre – Montana

Upper Missouri Agency Raid (1862)

Virginia City Gold Camp Violence, MT

Sully's Yellowstone Expedition Skirmishes 1864

Bannack Road Agent Hangings — Montana Vigilantes

Pryor Creek Engagement

Powder River Expedition — Cole's Column Fight (September 1865)

Blackfeet Raids on Fort Benton Area (1860s)

Tongue River Battle 1865

Cole-Walker Column Disasters 1865

Battle of the Tongue River

Fort C.F. Smith Hay Field Fight Prelude

Bozeman Vigilance Committee Hangings, MT

Hayfield Fight (August 1, 1867)

Piegan Blackfoot Raids on Settlements 1866-1870

Battle at Fort Benton vicinity

Red Cloud's War — Fort C.F. Smith Siege Operations

Hayfield Fight Montana

Hayfield Fight — Corral Defense

Hayfield Fight (Fort C.F. Smith)

Battle at Fort C.F. Smith

Hayfield Fight — Morning Assault (August 1, 1867)

Hayfield Fight — Opening Assault

Hayfield Fight — Relief Column from Fort C.F. Smith

Hayfield Fight — Afternoon Counterattack (August 1, 1867)

Fort Benton Area Skirmish (1867)

Battle of Hayfield Fight

Pryor Creek Fight (1868)

Fort C.F. Smith — Bozeman Trail Closure 1868

Baker Expedition to Marias River (October 1869)

Marias Massacre (Baker Massacre)

Marias Massacre — Piegan Blackfeet (January 23, 1870)

Marias Massacre — Baker's Attack on Heavy Runner's Camp (January 23, 1870)

Marias Massacre

Piegan Massacre (Baker Massacre 1870)

Marias River Massacre, Montana Territory

Marias Massacre — Heavy Runner's Camp

Marias Massacre — Congressional Investigation

Baker Massacre – Marias River

Fort Benton Area Skirmishes 1870s

Baker Massacre / Marias River

Battle of Marias River (Baker)

Battle of Marias — Baker Massacre of Blackfeet

Marias Massacre — Heavy Runner's Peace Policy Legacy

Pryor Creek Fight — Yellowstone Expedition 1872

Yellowstone Expedition — First Steamer Attack 1872

Stanley's Yellowstone Expedition — Arrow Creek Fight (August 4, 1872)

Stanley Expedition — Yellowstone River Fight (August 1872)

Yellowstone Expedition — First Stanley Fight Aug 4 1872

Battle of the Little Rockies — Assiniboine (1872)

Yellowstone Expedition 1872 — Fights at Pryor Creek and Poker Flats

Battle of Arrow Creek

Battle of Pryor Creek 1872

Camp Cooke / Carroll Area Skirmishes 1870s

Yellowstone Expedition Skirmishes (1873)

Yellowstone Expedition Fight 1873 (Bighorn)

Yellowstone Expedition — Second Stanley Fight Aug 11 1873

Battle of Arrow Creek — Crow-Piegan Fight (1873)

Fort Peck Post Skirmishes 1873

Second Battle of Yellowstone (1873)

Battle of the Little Rockies (Crow-Sioux)

Yellowstone Expedition Fight at Bighorn (1873)

Battle of Yellowstone (1873 Survey)

Yellowstone Expedition 1873 — Bighorn River Fight

Yellowstone Expedition 1873 — Tongue River Fight

Stanley's Yellowstone Expedition — Tongue River Fight (August 11, 1873)

Yellowstone Expedition Fight at Tongue River (1873)

Yellowstone Expedition 1873 — August 4 Fight

Yellowstone Expedition — Poker Jim Fight (August 1873)

Milk River Valley Operations — Assiniboine Conflicts 1870s

Battle of Pryor Creek — Crow vs. Sioux (1874)

Battle of Pryor Creek

Helena Saloon District Killings, MT

Crow-Sioux Battle at Pryor Mountains 1874

Battle of Ash Creek (Sioux vs. Crow) 1874

Crow Agency Defense vs. Sioux 1875

Birney Fight (1876)

Cedar Creek Battle

Powder River Attack (Reynolds' Fight)

Battle of the Little Bighorn — Medicine Tail Coulee Assault (June 25, 1876)

Battle of Rosebud — Crow Rescue of Crook

Battle of Little Bighorn — Benteen's Relief Column

Battle of Cedar Creek (1876)

Battle of the Rosebud — Mills's Canyon Charge

Skirmish at Cedar Creek

Rosebud Battle — Kollmar Creek Phase

Battle of the Rosebud — Conical Hill Fight

Battle of Ash Creek MT

Battle of Powder River (Reynolds 1876)

Battle of Little Bighorn — Reno's Timber Stand

Battle of Cedar Creek — Sitting Bull's Peace Talks (October 20–21, 1876)

Battle of Dull Knife — Village Destruction and Pony Capture

Black Elk at the Battle of Little Bighorn

Battle of Little Bighorn — Tom Custer and Boston Custer's Deaths

Battle of Rosebud — Crook's Final Position on Rosebud Creek

Rock Creek Fight (1876)

Powder River — Cheyenne Village Assault Phase

Battle of the Rosebud — Crow and Shoshone Allies

Crow Scouts vs. Sioux at Little Bighorn 1876

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