Colorado Forts- Fetterman

[sethwyo]

Well it was a trap and they did kill all the troops. Pretty sure that meets the definition of a massacre.

They didn't just kill them. Many of them wore butchered alive.
The hostiles had been doin this to others in the area for some time, that's why the military was sent there.
tribes of indigenous peoples in the region had entered into a treaty with the u s a seeking military protection from this very thing.

 

[sethwyo]

Well it was a trap and they did kill all the troops. Pretty sure that meets the definition of a massacre.

Some people want to put all 'white' colored people on one side, and 'indians' on the other side.
These people don't care about history or facts.

so group of people ' a ' like to go murder , rape and torture people ' b ' ,

People ' b ' aren't vicious enough or numericaly strong enough to defend themselves from 'a'

Then one day people 'c' come on the scene, they are migrating the same as all the other groups of people have, everyone here migrated from somewhere else.

People 'c' are strong and concerned about being fair to their neighbors, so people 'b' join into a treaty seeking, amount other things, military protection.

People 'a' also joined into the peace treaty, then, broke the treaty themselves,
they broke their own peace treaty with other tribes, their own tribe, and the usa, then spent the rest of their lives claiming that they were cheated

 

[olgrumpy]

A great book to read My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre by Frances C. Carrington she was the wife of Lt. George Washington Grummond, killed in the Massacre . She was later Col. Henry B Carrington's second wife. Another great book is Absaraka Home of the Crows by Margaret Irvin Carrington, his first wife.