The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
It needed to make the trail unusable and the forts unsustainable at a cost the U.S. government was unwilling to continue paying.
That is exactly what it did.
The total number of military engagements during Red Cloud’s War — small skirmishes, larger fights, attacks on supply trains and work parties — numbered in the hundreds over the two-year campaign.
Most of them were individually inconclusive.
Collectively, they constituted a sustained campaign of attrition that the Army could not effectively counter.
The Army’s options were limited.
It could increase the garrisons — but the additional soldiers needed supplies, and those supply lines were themselves under attack.
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