One of these units engaged with German forces at the Battle of Ambos Nogales, the only direct contact between the US and German armies in North America during World War One. Some of these units comprised the Punitive Expedition under their most famous commander. The first of these units, the 10th cavalry regiment, was organized by Benjamin Grierson in 1866, and these troops fought in several Indian Wars in the Southwest and plains. They were used to arrest striking miners in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in 1899, reportedly because they would further inflame the miners. General John Pershing earned his nickname for having served with one of these units during the Spanish-American War. For ten points, name these US Army soldiers who got their name from a confrontation with a band of Cheyenne because they reportedly fought like a cornered one of th
One of these units engaged with German forces at the Battle of Ambos Nogales, the only direct contact between the US and German armies in North America during World War One. Some of these units comprised the Punitive Expedition under their most famous commander. The first of these units, the 10th cavalry regiment, was organized by Benjamin Grierson in 1866, and these troops fought in several Indian Wars in the Southwest and plains. They were used to arrest striking miners in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in 1899, reportedly because they would further inflame the miners. General John Pershing earned his nickname for having served with one of these units during the Spanish-American War. For ten points, name these US Army soldiers who got their name from a confrontation with a band of Cheyenne because they reportedly fought like a cornered one of the namesake animals, whose history was later used as an allegory for armed black resistance by Bob Marley.
One of these units engaged with German forces at the Battle of Ambos Nogales, the only direct contact between the US and German armies in North America during World War One.
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