Conflicts

North Dakota

108 engagements recorded

Menoken Village Massacre

Stutsman County Fortified Village Cluster

Phillips Ranch Fortified Village

Stutsman County Fortified Village

Crow Creek-equivalent Northern Plains Massacre (Fagerberg Site)

Huff Site Mandan Fortification Warfare

Double Ditch Village Fortification

Slant Village Mandan Fortification Conflict

Heerdt Site Conflict – North Dakota

Initial Middle Missouri Fortified Village – Huff Site

Huff Site Fortification

Huff Village Fortification

Paul Brave Site Massacre

Big Hidatsa Village Fortification

Pembina Métis-Sioux Conflict (1851)

Battle of Fort Abercrombie

Knife River Villages Attack Threat 1862

Fort Berthold Skirmishes 1862–1865

Battle at Fort Abercrombie

Fort Abercrombie Sieges

Fort Abercombie Siege — Second Attack (September 1862)

Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake 1863

Sully's Missouri River Expedition Skirmishes 1863

Sibley's Retreat — Battle of Big Mound Pursuit (July 24, 1863)

Battle of Whitestone Hill — Sully's Attack (September 3–4, 1863)

Battle of Big Mound — Sibley Expedition (July 24, 1863)

Battle of Stony Lake

Battle of Whitestone Hill — Sully's Camp Destruction

Battle of Stony Lake 1863

Battle of White Stone Hill — Cavalry Pursuit Phase

Sibley Scout — Encounter on Burnt Creek (July 1863)

Sibley-Sully Campaigns — Battle of Big Mound Detail

Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake Jul 26 1863

Whitestone Hill Battle 1863

Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake

Battle of Whitestone Hill Sep 3-5 1863

Battle of White Stone Hill

Spring Creek Massacre — Dakota Territory (1863)

Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake — Sibley Expedition (July 26, 1863)

Fort Berthold Sioux Attacks (1862–1865)

Battle of Whitestone Hill — Second Day (September 4, 1863)

Battle of Big Mound

Dakota Territory Settler Raids 1863

Battle of Stony Lake — Sibley Expedition (July 28, 1863)

Battle of Big Mound 1863

Battle of Whitestone Hill — Sioux Counterattack

Battle of Whitestone Hill — Sully's Attack

Battle of Whitestone Hill

Battle of Big Mound Jul 24 1863

Battle of Whitestone Hill — Camp Destruction

Sibley Expedition — Battle of Buffalo Lake (July 26, 1863)

Battle of Stony Lake — Sibley Expedition (July 28, 1863)

Battle of Whitestone Hill (1863)

Battle of Killdeer Mountain — Sitting Bull's First Fight

Battle of the Badlands — Skirmishes in the Little Missouri Breaks

Killdeer Mountain — Indian Casualties and Village Destruction

Battle of Killdeer Mountain — Inkpaduta's Role

Killdeer Mountain — Grand River Pursuit 1864

Sitting Bull's First Coup — Early Career Raids

Battle of Killdeer Mountain — Sully's Artillery Assault

Killdeer Mountain Battle 1864

Battle of the Badlands

Hunkpapa Attack on Fort Union 1864

Battle of Killdeer Mountain (1864)

Battle of the Badlands 1864 — Sully's Pursuit

Battle of Fort Rice ND

Fort Rice Engagements 1864-1865

Skirmish at Heart River ND

Battle of Killdeer Mountain (pursuit engagement)

Battle of Rainy Buttes ND

Battle of Killdeer Mountain — Cavalry Charge Phase

Battle of Killdeer Mountain — Sully's Pursuit Phase

Battle of the Badlands (Sully 1864)

Battle of the Little Missouri 1864

Battle of the Badlands 1864

Battle of Killdeer Mountain — Western Advance (July 28, 1864)

Battle of Killdeer Mountain

Sully's Badlands Fighting — Little Missouri River (August 1864)

Battle of Killdeer Mountain — Sully's 1864 Expedition (July 28, 1864)

Fort Rice Construction — Sioux Harassment (1864)

Battle of Killdeer Mountain — Village Destruction

Battle of Tahkahokuty Mountain

Hunkpapa Attack on Fort Union (1864)

Battle of the Badlands Aug 1864

Battle of Killdeer Mountain (Sully 1864) — Knife River fight

Fort Rice Skirmishes 1864–1865

Attack on Fort Buford Woodcutters (1866)

Hunkpapa Sioux Raids on Fort Stevenson 1866–1867

Battle of Fort Ransom Skirmishes 1866

Fort Buford Engagements (Assiniboine)

Fort Ransom Skirmishes 1867–1868

Fort Totten Skirmish 1868

Battle of Fort Ransom

Bismarck Railroad Town Violence, Dakota Territory ND

Fargo Railroad Town Killings, Dakota Territory ND

Standing Rock Area Skirmishes 1876–1877

Standing Rock Agency — Hunkpapa Resistance (1876–1877)

Bull Run Creek Skirmish 1876

Sitting Bull's Surrender at Fort Buford (July 19, 1881)

Sitting Bull's Surrender at Fort Buford

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