The Marias (aka Baker) Massacre
The Drunk Leading the Powerless
Just after daybreak on January 23rd, 1870, in temperatures well below zero, Army Colonel Eugene Baker, who was visibly drunk according to all witnesses of the incident, ordered his 380 cavalry men to attack an encampment of about forty Piegan Indian lodges, even after he was informed by one of his scouts that they wer…
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