November 25, 1876 · Northern Plains Theater
November 25, 1876
Following Little Bighorn, General Crook dispatched Colonel Ranald Mackenzie's cavalry to destroy the Northern Cheyenne village of Dull Knife and Little Wolf in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. Mackenzie's force of 1,100 soldiers and 400 scouts located the village of approximately 183 lodges in a sheltered canyon and attacked at dawn in bitter cold. The village was destroyed, 500 horses captured, and the Cheyenne were driven into the mountains with inadequate clothing and no food. Many froze to death.
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