November 27, 1868 · Southern Plains Theater
November 27, 1868
Custer's 7th Cavalry launched a dawn attack on Chief Black Kettle's Southern Cheyenne village on the Washita River in present-day Oklahoma. Black Kettle, a tireless advocate for peace who had survived Sand Creek four years earlier, was killed along with his wife and more than 100 Cheyenne — mostly women and children. Custer also destroyed the village, killed approximately 875 horses, and captured 53 women and children.
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