1872 Battle In Montana

For the next few years the Americans did little to force their way onto the eastern Montana plains, but by the early 1870s they were definitely planning their Montana invasion, and on one occasion during that time period, the Americans who numbered around 400, deliberately set up the brave Anishinabe warriors again, to use their machine guns against. On August 14, 1872 the Americans had ordered surveyors into eastern Montana to survey Montana land for a railroad line, and around 400 American soldiers under the command of the drunk Major Eugene Baker, were ordered along to protect the surveyors. Their movements were known of by ogima Little Shell, who always kept that portion of his kingdoms land (that includes down in northeastern Wyoming) guarded. After the Iron Confederations warriors caught wind of the illegal American movements, they planned a night time attack but were defeated. They obviously were motivated to attempt a night time attack because of the American machine guns. They suffered around 140 casualties with about 100 killed. Their high casualties were the result of the Americans using their machine guns on them. American casualties were only 9 with two being killed. After this battle the immense rage ogima Little Shell and his brave warriors were feeling would escalate. We know that they wanted to retaliate. They would eventually do it a few years later. They needed a strategy to defend themselves against the terrifying machine guns of their American enemy, and they obviously came up with more than only one.