Colonel Henry Leavenworth leaves Fort Atkinson (now …

Years: 1823 - 1823
July
Colonel Henry Leavenworth leaves Fort Atkinson (now in Nebraska) with two hundred and twenty men, joined by more than seven hundred Yankton, Yanktonai and Lakotas in the United States' first Indian war west of the Missouri.

The Arikara retreat to their fortified village.

The disappointed Sioux soon leave the battlefield.

The Arikara escape at night, and angry fur traders set their empty lodges ablaze the next morning.

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