Atlas of the Sioux Wars

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“This atlas represents a modest effort to examine the Army’s campaigns against the Sioux, one of the crucial great Indian tribes of the American West. The three Sioux wars covered in this atlas offer plenty of historical case studies for the student of low-intensity conflict. The difficulties of the use of volunteer forces to quell a rebellion of suppressed peoples are investigated in the 1862 campaign in Minnesota. The 1866-68 Sioux War in Wyoming and Montana is the story of securing a fixed route of shuttle through hostile territory with limited resources. The final conflict, that of 1876, encompasses one of the crucial largest and most ambitious search-and-destroy missions in the history of Indian warfare. This atlas will be especially useful to those soldiers who want to study the Sioux campaigns on the actual sites by the use of the Staff Ride methodology. For them, this work may serve as an educational reference as they begin their study, provide a handy companion on the battlefield, and serve as a helpful reminder as they integrate their insights from the school room with those of the battlefield.”

“The relevance of the Sioux Wars for today’s Army is even more evident in 2006 than it used to be in 1992. As with the campaigns against the Sioux from the 1860s to the 1890s, early 21st century operations array the conventional forces of the USA Army against the unconventional forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Sioux campaigns are replete with valuable lessons for the professional soldier. The operations were operationally and tactically complex, unfamiliar terrain and logistics dramatically affected the multiphase engagements, and each operation took place in a complex political and cultural environment of shifting priorities. A serious study of the campaigns offers today’s officers the opportunity to compare, contrast, and, most importantly, to discover the threads of continuity linking the unconventional warfare of the 21st century with that of their 19th century forebears.”

This is the up to date 2nd addition of this book.

This book has 37 color maps, including maps of: The Battle of the Little Bighorn: Reno’s Attack in the Valley, 1500 to 1533; The Battle of Wounded Knee, 29 December 1890; The Battle the Little Bighorn: Custer’s Last Stand; The Grattan Affair, 1854–55; Minnesota Sioux Uprising, August 1862; The Bozeman Trail and the Connor Expedition; Fetterman Fight: The Cavalry Fight and Fetterman’s Last Stand; The Battle of the Rosebud: The Sioux and Cheyenne Attack, 0800 to 0830; The Ghost Dance; The Battles of Cedar Creek and Dull Knife, October–November 1876.

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