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In hindsight, our nation’s bout with “cancel culture” was mercifully short-lived. The rabble that hit the streets of U.S.
U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) was well-represented at the Caballeros de Yuma’s 39th annual Fourth of July Flag Raising ...
In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...
A group in Colorado is seeking to revert the name of Mount Blue Sky to Mount Evans, arguing the decision to scrap the name of ...
After peace talks were rescinded, Colonel John Chivington took the 1st Colorado Infantry Regiment of Volunteers (US) and 3rd Regiment of Colorado Cavalry Volunteers to the southwest of the ...
Less than a week after Thanksgiving in 1864, Army Col. John Chivington had a plan for a Native American encampment he gazed down upon. His designs stood in wild opposition to a part of the holiday ...
The meadow to the north beyond the his plaque is where the Cheyenne and Arapaho camp was when Col. John Chivington’s troops attacked. (Bob Silbernagel photo) It’s not hard to understand why.
My concern is that some travelers do not understand that the massacre was not performed by the Cheyenne and Arapaho, but by the Colorado Volunteers under command of Col. John Chivington.
On September 28th, 1864, Col. John Chivington met here with Chiefs Black Kettle and One Eye, and other Cheyenne and Arapaho leaders, to extract information that the army would use to commit the ...
Col. John Chivington Chivington is perhaps best remembered for the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado, the murder and mutilation of several hundred defenseless Cheyenne and Arapaho by cavalrymen ...
1530 — Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, former adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died. 1864 — The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado when a militia led by Colonel John Chivington, killed at ...