The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About

But the strategic significance of these defensive successes was limited.

The Hayfield and Wagon Box fighters held their positions, yes.

The forts remained intact.

But the trail remained unusable.

The civilian traffic remained absent.

The supply problems remained acute.

The resistance continued.

A strategy of attrition doesn’t require winning every engagement.