Details
- Term
Indian wars
- Broader Term
wars and battles
- Date
1789-1891
- Remarks
Hostilities between European-Americans and North American Indians periodically led to armed conflict after the American Revolution. European-American victories in the late 18th and early 19th centuries cleared the way for their settlement of the trans-Appalachian frontier. Warfare also accompanied European-American expansion into the trans-Mississippi West in the 1850s and 1860s. After the Civil War, the United States military tried to clear all Indians out of the Great Plains, a region once considered their permanent home.
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