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Henry Hastings Sibley

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Lifespan

1811 – 1891

18201830184018501860187018801890Dakota War of 1862 · 1862Sioux Wars · 1854-1891Battle of Wood Lake — September 23, 1862 · United States · Dakota War of 1862Battle of Big Mound — July 24, 1863 · United States of America · Sioux WarsBattle of Dead Buffalo Lake — July 26, 1863 · United States · Sioux WarsBattle of Stony Lake — July 28, 1863 · United States of America · Sioux Wars

Active service 1862–1863 — 4 battles across 2 wars; first command at age 51.

Profile

Henry Hastings Sibley was a fur trader with the American Fur Company, the first Congressional representative for Minnesota Territory, the first governor of the state of Minnesota, and a United States military leader in the Dakota War of 1862 and a subsequent expedition into Dakota Territory in 1863.

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Battles (4)

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