High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Slim Buttes was fought on September 9– 10 1876, in the Great Sioux Reservation between the United States Army and Miniconjou Sioux during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. It marked the first significant victory for the army since the stunning defeat of George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in June. Following the Little Bighorn debacle, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, commanding the Department of Missouri, ordered the U.S. Army to convince the hostile Indians to return to their reservations. Generals Alfred Terry and George Crook took up an unsuccessful late summer chase of the Lakota and Cheyenne. The campaign resumed on August 5, and on August 10 the combined force, leaving its wagon train behind to unencumber the pursuit, moved east toward the Black Hills. Bad weather, extreme muddy conditions on the trail, and overtaxed men and animals led to the combined force breaking up on August 18, with Terry's men returning to their bases.

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