“I have never heard of a more brutal, cold-blooded massacre than that at Wounded Knee,” Maj. Gen. Nelson Miles, who took over the 7 th Cavalry after the noncombatant deaths came to ...

Either way, a shot rang out and the massacre began ... “To say that it was a most daring feat, 120 Indians attacking 500 cavalry, expresses the situation but faintly,” the Globe-Democrat ...

Official accounts say the massacre took 20 minutes ... The U.S. Army interpreted the dance as a call to arms and sent the 7th Cavalry to suppress the dancing and arrest Hunkpapa Lakota leader ...

After the massacre, Saudi Arabia put the US-backed ... And I think that’s because they’ve seen that the cavalry is not coming to the rescue,” Blinken said. “One of the things that they ...

The date marked the slaughter of hundreds of Lakota, including women and children, in the snow at Wounded Knee Creek by the 7th Cavalry on Dec. 29, 1890. “I have never heard of a more brutal, ...