Sioux, Cheyenne & Arapahoe Warriors vs. US Army Cavalry : The Fetterman Massacre of 1866
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- On the morning December 21st of 1866, a squad of US Army cavalrymen sets out in pursuit of a raiding party composed of Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe warriors under the direction of the legendary Chief Red Cloud. By noon, every single soldier will lie dead on a rocky hillside near the fort.
What happened that day? Who was responsible for the massacre? And what role would this engagement player in the greater part of what would go on to be known as “Red Cloud’s War”?
Tune into this episode of History At The OK Corral as we explore the horrifying tale of The Fetterman Massacre.
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Somehow this channel continues to get better. Absolutely incredible work. 💯
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Not really. It's a well known story, retold. Rather than illustrating it with pretty pictures from the Rockies, why doesn't this channel show pictures from where it actually happened?
@@tombristowe846 Rather then making shitty comments, why don't you make a video about it then and you tell the story c:
Wizna a fight they gt slotted like a snotter😮
Glad you're covering this one - a legendary fight...
Excellent quality as always. One correction though. The Fetterman Fight wasn't the worst defeat the US Army suffered in battle against First Nations and neither was the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Maybe they were the worst defeats on the Plains, but the worst defeat the US Army ever suffered at the hands of a First Nations power was the Battle of the Wabash in 1791. 600 US soldiers and militiamen were killed in battle and and another 300 wounded. The survivors were so desperate to get away any wounded who couldn't walk were left on the field, where most were killed in the battle's aftermath. It was also a far more equal fight, with both armies having around 1,000 men.
There is a book called the "Victory With No Name" that details the greatest US Army defeat in the "Indian Wars". Calling this defeat the "Battle of the Wabash", or "Saint Claire's defeat" were strategic names given by the US Gov to underplay the military might of Little Turtle's war party. Despite the embarrassing defeat, the US Army considered Little Turtle a respectful alley and buried him under military colors. An army lieutenant who was an early "Indian Agent" for Little Turtle's band died years later covering the retreat of a small town from an Indian raid. He was dressed in full Miami war paint and single handily saved over 100 American souls by "fighting like a Savage".
True enough but the army got plenty of revenge. I know Yankee soldier lover either and I have about 20% Indian blood but I still say whoever wins is the Victor and can decide what's going to happen. 1791 was a one-sided war until they brought out guns that had multiple shots in them they could only fire one shot at a time and then they would have to reload with the arrows you can shoot one after another.
The multiple repeater spell the end of the Indians even when they had rifles themselves because traditionally they didn't have the experience of the army so they were much less accurate shooters with a Little bighorn you know you got 30 to 1 so that's why that one turned out the way it did.
better leadership would have respected the bodies, sought a deal BC the writing was on the wall.
Yep He Not Wrong Washington Was So Upset With St Clair He Order His Resignation
While I don’t consider myself an expert On the Fetterman fight, I have done a great deal of research, including walking the battlefield, when doing my video on the fight. you did make a few errors. For example, colonel Carrington was not a general, but a colonel, commanding, the 18th infantry station along the Bozeman Trail. A small detachment of the second cavalry, was station at the fort, and therefore under his command. I believe the true villain of this fight was lieutenant Grumman. I like the way you centered the battle on the exploits of Burglar Metzger. Fetterman error was thinking he was engaging a couple hundred warriors, not the 1000 to 3000 who were actually there. Good video, I enjoyed it a great deal.
I enjoy watching Your documentary’s I’m from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota! Your doing a badass job man!
Too cool! That looks like beautiful country. Thank you so much for watching. Battle Of The Rosebud coming soon!
You’re.
I recently read a historical fiction book about this event and the months preceding it named "Ridgeline" it was pretty good. Thanks for making the video man.
Sounds good! I’m always taking suggestions, so thanks for sharing
One of the best novels I’ve ever read
The soldiers were comprised of 49 men of companies A,C,E, and H of the 18th US Infantry. Comany C 2nd US Cav counted 29 of the detail. 2 civilians, Wheatley and Fisher, brought the count to 80.
Great episode as always! Can’t wait for the next even though I have thoroughly read and studied the history of the Indian wars. You give a new dimension to the tales. Thanks!
Another tale of brutal conflict and great misfortune... but a tale very well-told! 👏 👏 👏
I genuinely feel love for this channel and the creators and content creators of this channel. Grateful I found this channel this year, just added to how I think for the better I feel to be more discerning about history . Thank you all so much.
P.s The narrator rules with his unique voice
Great video!
Keep up the good work with the vids!!!! God bless!!!!
Excellent , Thank you for the upload . Love your channel and content !!.
If well produced and accurately portrayed, this would make for a stellar movie. Thanks for the excellent account.
Fine effort. I read and purchased all of Dee Browns books, and the Fetterman Massacre still stands out to this this day.
As you can see by the many comments that i will echo is that folks are enjoying your content and well researched narration..your subs/view are growing each time i visit your channel..and to see so many folks interested in important, but rarely discussed, history is fantastic..i never learned of this historical era, gawd forbid the schhols expand their cirriculum..or worse yet, students wanting to learn this..anyways..thanks for great content..you are underrated and here is hoping YT recognizes that you have merit..
I have stopped at this battlefield often on my way to YNP. It is an eerie place. Caution: Once I saw rattlesnakes in the grass on the path right next to me. I had my corgi dog with me so I quickly picked her up and left. Another time a thunderstorm came out of nowhere from the Bighorns and lightning was crashing around me. Thank goodness I was not that far out on the trail so I could get back to my car. Spooky place. Every time I have been to this battlefield I am the only one there.
A very well done video. Truly the way in which this battle took place. Shows the great leadership of the Tribal Chiefs. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨
Thank you!
What an absolutely incredible story. Wow. I'm just speechless. Red Cloud is one incredible warrior.
The 'moon' move aswell 😂😂
Your story telling is second to none good sir. Quite remarkable.
Big big fan. 🙏
Warm wishes to you and your family this festive season. 🌿☃️❄️
Excellent work, sir. The US between 1850s and 1890s is a fascinating period.
Fantastic narration again. Thank you.
Interesting documentary, well narrated.
Great video and great narration as always, glad you’ll be making a series on Red Cloud’s war
I am looking forward to another video about the wagon box fight
Random viewer from Nottingham England here not sure how i got here but glad i did, love these stories life must of been a bit of an adventure back then
Please do an episode on the Wiseman massacre in Cedar County Nebraska
I really enjoyed this narrative thank you, I will say Captain Fetterman didn't say at any point that if he had 80 men he could defeat the Indian nation. This came about much like an urban myth after the event. Captain Fetterman was a good officer and soldier and many things went wrong that fateful day. Lt G Grumand again led his cavalry troop after Indians over the ridge leaving Capt Fetterman and the infantry. This was a huge mistake that sealed all their fates. Also the only repeating rifles in the engagement were carried by two miners. They held the Indians off for some time with their rifles but were eventually overcome and their bodies horrifically mutilated. Captain Fetterman was made the scapegoat after and all blame was placed on him Carrington made sure of it. Carrington absolved himself from any responsibility, he wasn't a good officer or soldier by many accounts. In fact I believe he married Grummands widow and the pair of them placed all the blame firmly on Captain Fetterman.
Of course Fetterman was going to get the blame. He was the one in command so he's the one responsible.
I live in concho Arizona. Is there anything interesting out here? Showlow?
Such beautiful, unforgiving country. Grumman looks like a guy who’d be into selfies today. Is that a real picture (or drawing - tough to tell) of Bridger?
The good ol tactic of angering your enemy into throwing caution and logic to the wind
Greetings from Apacheria in the Arizona Territories ahe'hye'e
I wonder why a bugler didn't carry a pistol and a knife?
"The battle of the 100 is the hand" amazing prophecy
One thing I heard somewhere else is the Indians did not mutilate Adolf because of how bravely he fought until his last breath.
"Boy get down and scalp him!"
Black elk speaks
Liked as always, high quality as usual! Two little critic points, Carrington broke clearly the treaty one and a half decades after 1851, tresspassing was was allowed but no settling of whites. This was'nt a massacre but a fight between a army troop, led by a arrogant fool who never know what he was facing and a highly underrated sense of strategie and the shere number of the Tribes. I believe that tactics were lead by Crazy Horse and not Red Cloud. Your'e right with the sketch, there isn't not one picture of this great warrior. Thank y'all for the perfomance, it's tasty at all. From Northern Germany Ludwig.
We think its a matter of who the arrogant fool was: Fetterman or Grummond? It may be Grummond broke first and Fetterman was trying to back him up. But totally understand your take. Great to see you Ludwig, we were just talking about what a great contributor to these discussions you are! Hope you are well!
Dec. 21 sorry for the typo
Excellent...professionally presented.
How?
Remain me to never become a bugler in the old west; unless I want to play the last post.
The US Army does not play the last post, they play taps
Dam. How scary to encounter a warring tribe ready for vengeance and retribution. What became of Carrington? Seems like the warriors could have taken the fort easily after that battle.
He did not swing a rifle he was not issued ! Buglers had no rifles to swing . The hostiles respected his body after they killed him because all he had was his bugle to defend himself , which is in a museum . The Zulu's would stab a brave man with many spears to wash them in a brave mans blood ! Know your enemy !
You do take the fight to the enemy. Problem is, know your enemy. The Indians had old feuds between each other like the Hatfield's and McCoys, feud. That said, use that to your advantage. Let them teach you the nature of which your enemy fights. In Vietnam I think they called the Kit Carson scouts.
Crazy Horse first victory.
And not his last!
Excellent Example of POOR OVERCONFIDENT LEADERSHIP
I can't believe they fell for that shit . I mean damn , absolutely insane . A rookie mistake . This is what happens when you don't follow orders . I mean damn , you allways hath to be thinking in a situation like that . It should have been so obvious that Red Cloud was only trying to get them to commit. Good job with your presentation as usual.
I wish there was more Tribe vs Tribe content, although...
With your coverage and apparent knowledge of the subject, I think you'd be granted artistic license when doing speculative stories about this.
Hell, I'd buy a fictional book about intertribal war
He reads out of books made up by other Europeans.
No Caucasians has a clue about Indigenous Culture or History
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Nobody wants to make videos about tribe on tribe brutality… it shows how absolutely savage and brutal the “natives” were… and that would hurt their current “innocent victim” mentality that gets them soooooo many handouts.
@@scottosenbrock9622 look I don't think they/we(I have an Indian status card, I'm Canadian) should get special allowances either, but you're misunderstanding the nature of the deal if you think they got it from victim mentality. it's more like they're taxing the government(s) because all players understand that the natives can muster 300 people block a road and only a few of them are gonna get fucked over. because they have local leaders still, the special allowances aren't so easily thrown away
Admiral Ackbar: “Take evasive action. It’s a trap!”
You didn't mention that Fetterman had exactly eighty men with him!
That is a myth there is no record he actually said that read the well-researched comment up there speaking on the myth of Captain federman saying he could take 80 men and defeat the Siox. Baby they have Miss of every man saying exactly the same thing including custard none of the men ever said that. And I have to point out and I'm 20% Indian so I'm more than qualified to say this they did defeat all the Indian nations with much less people than the Indians had. The last tribe to hold out where the Apache who after getting beat in battle after battle after battle by the Comanche then tried to take on the white man and they were finally subdued.
personally, wouldn't call it a massacre, just a battle without quarter given. Just when you usually think massacre it means that the losing side was unarmed or were killed after trying to surrender.
No it was a massacre
Naive does not get you very far with fighting Indians.
At the 2:30 mark it appears Aaron Rodgers was throwing lead before footballs
Crazy Horse got off his horse and took time to clean snow of his horses hooves. He then slowly got back on his horse, shot one last look at the charging soldiers, then slowly rode over the ridge. He was the last one to ride over the ridge. Also a relief force was sent out but by the time they got to a hill to see the fight, the warriors were already looting the bodies and all that jazz.
They say he trained his horse how to act wounded
I thought Carrington was a Colonel, not a General. 🤷🏼♂️
Hi man i always enjoy your content but didn't the souix warrior's honour "Meztger" by placing a buffalo hide on him or stop other warriors mutilating his body As he was fighting without a weapon and the native american see this as counting co.
Please can you tell the tale of cheif joesph of the nerz perace Indians to take his people home then to the borders of Canada that story is epic.
Metzger fought with only his bugler and fought like a crazy badger. That's why he was left alone and covered with a buffalo robe. It was said that the fight started so quick all Metzger could grab was his bugler and that he had no time to get properly dressed so he was half naked in battle using his bugler as a weapon.
Anybody wanting to know more about the fetteman massacre should read dee browns book the fetteman massacre a true account of the incident and it's aftermath
Klasična bitka u kojoj je prevladalo lukavstvo i želja da se odbrani svoja zemlja.
Who told Metzgers story of they all died
Native warriors interviewed after the battle.
@@historyattheokcorral were they laughing about the bugle?
The part about it being Indian land is a opinion of many but to me to have a few thousand Indians claiming the vast stretches of the western frontiers to me its just unsettled land to be taken by the settlers. SO even if you can claim all those vast plains were Indian lands we did what they were doing to one another in that we defeated them in war and took their land like they were defeating one another in war and taking other tribes land.
Crazy, among Indians means magical
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We see you Jack!
@@historyattheokcorral lol
Love your videos but I hate the opening chords of the song. Even if you started the song a little later, when it doesn’t sound like a generic stock song, it would be much better. People might hate this comment, but I had to say something because I always have to overcome my reaction to the generic opening chords to be able to watch the rest of the video. Take it or leave it
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Quite an interesting fight. Wonder what would have happened if Custer had been in charge.
Hmm...random silly question. What if Arnold Schwartzeneger was in charge?
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Spoiler alert Custer dies.
The only two that had repeating rifles in the fetterman group for two civilians each one of them had multiple bodies aroynd them. As a matter of fact the reason the Indians hack them after they were already dead was because they had killed so many before they were finally overtaken. I mean there's another battle that no one talks about that's when 29 men including a bat Masterson stood down a group of 750 Indians. The most embarrassing defeat the Indians ever suffered 750 against 29. The group of 29 lost three men while there was hundreds of wounded and dead outside. There was no hospital so most of the wounded also died. Despite being treated by a doctor in the group he did not have any of his instruments or anything.
Dam u and Josh on the same shit. He just did wooden leg
Crow are so weak
We lost a war to northeastern natives plus way more men in single battles to natives hell they also help burn white house
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I'd highly recommend the book by Joseph Marshall on this fight from the Lakota perspective...meaning the truth.
Wow. The first time I have seen an American documentary actually admit offences against the Indigenous populations. Next you'll be admitting genocide, which it was. still it's a start.
Ah take itd b hard ta gt whole truth unless u gt wan Indians ta tell us tht all folks coz ah hink 200 or 2000 eh eh 100 in eh hand massacar
Born German, is being German.
I wish I was part of the Cinnabun tribe
Iam sure there were plenty weapons disguarded on the battlefield , if the bugler didnt arm himself hes a fool...
You weren't there. You're the fool. He was surrounded and tucked away by himself. I know, comprehension is hard
@@montanamike7948 harder than survival instinct....
Spoiler alerts. We won