NOV 18: Miles Moves on Sitting Bull

Col. Nelson A. Miles. (Credit: Library of Congress)

On Nov. 18, 1876, Colonel Nelson A. Miles, with the entire 5th Infantry departs the Tongue River cantonment to force Sitting Bull onto the Great Sioux Reservation, located in today’s South Dakota and Nebraska. Some of his followers returned to the reservation, but Sitting Bull fled north into Canada, where he remained until returning to the United States in 1881.