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Q: What was the objective of us troops at wounded knee?
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What was the site where more than 100 fleeing indians were killed by the us troops?

Sand creek massacare


What is important about the battle of wounded knee?

the thing that is important about it is that it was a Sioux battle with US troops and was very well known about.


Which of these was the last significant military clash between the Native Americans and US troops in North America?

Battle of Wounded Knee


What was the last armed conflict to take place between native Americans and us army?

Wounded Knee


Who won the Battle of Wounded Knee?

You mean the Massacre at Wounded Knee. There was no battle. The US army killed men, women and children.


Who won the wounded knee battle?

You mean the Massacre at Wounded Knee. There was no battle. The US Army killed men, women and children.


What day did the wounded knee siege start?

Wounded Knee was not a siege, it was a massacre. On December 29, 1890, the US troops who were surrounding a camp of surrendered Sioux Indians from a nearby reservation were ordered to disarm the Indians. Accounts vary, but a shot was fired and the US troops opened fire and slaughtered nearly 300 Sioux. This number includes women, children, and babies fleeing the camp who were hunted down and killed.


What is Tragedy at Wounded Knee?

The tragedy at wounded knee occured when Sitting Bull, chief of the Lakota Sioux, was being hunted down for being the leader of the "ghost dance," the spiritual dance that was performed so that the bufallo would come back and all the white settlers would leave. Troops came to Sitting Bull's reservation, and Sitting Bull died in an exchange of gunfire. The other particapnts of the Ghost dance then escaped, but troops went after them. At Wounded Knee Creek, gunfire broke out and 200 largely unarmed Lakota and 25 US soldiers were killed.


What event was the armed American Indian resistance to us rule?

the wounded knee


Who contributed to the Wounded Knee Massacre?

The US government attacked the Native Americans.


Was the Vietnam war the longest was in which the American military troops have been involved?

Other than the US Frontier Wars which lasted from the time the Pilgrims landed in 1620 until the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890.


What were the casulties for the US in the Korean War?

34,000 US troops killed in action. 150,000 wounded