Battle of Honsinger Bluff

The Battle of Honsinger Bluff was a conflict between the United States Army and the Lakota people on August 4, 1873, along the Yellowstone River near present-day Miles City, Montana. Montana was a U.S. territory that had been acquired from the Crow Nation in 1868. The main combatants were units of the U.S. 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, and Native Americans from the village of the Hunkpapa medicine man Sitting Bull, many of whom would confront Custer again approximately three years later at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in the Crow Indian Reservation.