what soldier was the most skilled at fighting native americans?
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The most successful American commander during the Indian Wars when considering number of men in his command versus time taken to finish a fight was Ranald Slidell Mackenzie (1840-1889).  He was known for his ability to inflict massive property damage without unnecessary loss of life.  He was highly respected by the Kiowa and Comanche chiefs who fought against him and he was responsible for much respectful and lenient treatment of the tribes both before and after they surrendered and went to the reservation.
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You watch to much TV. When the settlers first came not all were unwelcome by the Indians-there was plenty of land. The settles brought things the Indians wanted. Fighting did not start right away. My family was from the Kickapoo tribe-you need to know your history better.
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Andy g.\n\nIf a Marine heard you call him a "soldier" he would kick your azs
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i would have to say Napoleon bornaparte due to his spread of french culture through Europe even though it was through warfare.
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Shaka Zulu - Historical Tribal Chief defieted the british in several battles.
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"Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877), was a Confederate general and perhaps the American Civil War's most highly regarded cavalry and partisan ranger (guerrilla leader)."
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use the battle of honey springs...\n\nits unique because more indians and blacks were involved in this battle than whites. that was rare..\n\ncheck this page out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Honey_Springs
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The Marine Corps, without a doubt!! Every man and woman is trained how to fire a weapon, regardless of what job you have. Also we do a lot more with less gear/technologies.\n Our reputation from 1775 to now speaks for itself!
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Native American.\n\nGeographic Overview \n\nWhen complete these Histories will encompass approximately 240 tribal histories (contact to 1900). They will be limited to the lower 48 states of the U.S. but also include those First Nations from Canada and Mexico that had important roles (Huron, Micmac, Assiniboine, etc.).\n\nhttp://www.dickshovel.com/up.html\n\nNATIVE AMERICAN SITES ON THE INTERNET\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Native_American.htm\n\nhttp://www.multcolib.org/homework/natamhc.html#itribes\n\nhttp://americanindian.net/links7.html\n\nhttp://www.promotega.org/fld30036/index.html\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Native.html\n\nhttp://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab05\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/1naind.html\n\nhttp://www.kstrom.net/isk/mainmenu.html#buttons\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~RFester/index.html\n\nNative American Best General Resource Sites\n\nhttp://lone-eagles.com/na-general.htm\n\n____________________________________________________________\n\nhttp://cherokeehistory.com/\n\nhttp://cherokeehistory.com/histlink.html\n\nhttp://travelsd.com/onlyinsd/sioux/tribes/index.asp\n\nhttp://www.texasindians.com/cadd\n\nImages of Native Americans\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=north+american+indians+&btnG=Search\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Tough one.  Hannibal, Alexander the Great, Napolean, Stonewall Jackson, and Rommell come to mind quickly for army commanders.\n\nNaval tactics....Nelson, Spruance, Tanaka, and Cunningham also come to mind quickly.\n\nPicking one great of all time is pretty difficult, especially given the different periods of warfare, and your particular definition of tactical.
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Chief Rain in the Face was born near the forks of the Cheyenne River in 1835. He had no relatives on either side who were chiefs; thus, he had to work for the title. In the Sioux tribes, the title "chief" was an honorific accorded if the warrior had accomplished great deeds in battle. It didn't indicate that the man was a tribal leader; decisions were made in a group council.\n\nRain in the Face began to build his reputation as a strong warrior while still a boy, when he often won the boys' games they played. By his own account, he loved to fight. One day, when he was about 10 years old, his group met up with a band of Cheyenne boys. They were friendly to each other, but boys being boys, they began a mock battle Rain in the Face ended up opposing a Cheyenne boy much older than him, who hit him hard in the face several times. He eventually won, but his face was spattered with blood and streaked where the paint had been washed away. Thus he achieved his name.\n\nHe participated in the raid against Fort Totten in North Dakota in the summer of 1866. Though Rain in the Face had been on the warpath many times, he hadn't met much success until he faced the white man.\n\nTwo years later, he attacked Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming, the infamous Fetterman battle -- nobody was left alive inside the fort to tell the tale. In this fight, almost every band of the Sioux nation was represented.\n\nWhen the white men felt a lust for the gold of the Black Hills, Rain in the Face took the warpath against the white man for the last time.\n\nHe was captured after being betrayed by some of the reservation Indians and taken to the Fort near Bismarck, N.D. The Indian scouts who worked for Custer told him he was to hang. He was set free by an old soldier who had been set to guard him. The soldier unfastened his shackles and spoke to him by sign, saying,\n\n"Go, friend! take this chain and ball with you. I shall shoot, but the voice of the gun will lie."\n\nHe ran for his life and returned to Standing Rock, and then to the Powder River. In the spring he joined the hostile Sioux, the beginning of the largest gathering of tribes in history.
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indians  thus known as NATIVE AMERICANS!
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A difficult question to ask.  Generally, the American Indian, or Native American, would be the most likely candidate.  However, their ancestors arrived here via the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska not once, but three times.\nNow scientists speculate, and with some evidence, that early Europeans arrived here across the icefields of the Atlantic Ocean during the last major ice age, about 10,000 years ago.\nSo who is truly American?  Whoever is born here, I guess.
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Native Americans weren't the buffalo soldiers - black infantry men in the US army were. But the indians did give them that nickname.
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Fort Sill, Oklahoma\n\nGeronimo\nby Sierra\n\n\n\n \n\nGoyahkla aka Geronimo (1829-1909)\n\n\n\nPortrait done by artist Gary Saderup\n\n\n\nIn the annals of American history, there is possibly no greater legend than Geronimo.   He was not a man of superhuman strength or power, and he was no medicine man or chief, as some believe.  He was an ordinary man with extraordinary vision, an ability to look deep into his soul and meet all adversity head-on.  He never wavered in his desire to live free, or die trying.  During his lifetime, he became a stranger in his own land, hunted by white man and Apache alike.  When finally forced to surrender, he found himself banished forever.  His story is the most heroic and tragic in the history of the Southwest.    \n\n"None had lost as I had, for I had lost all." Geronimo’s words and his vows of vengeance may have been the beginning of his rise to leadership, but only his courage and cunning kept him strong in the eyes of his people.  No other man has written his name so fiercely on the history of the land.  Lied to and betrayed by his white adversaries, he still remained a man of integrity, keeping his word once it was given.  He was wary and distrustful of everyone, even among his own people, yet he was known to be kind and affectionate to his family and friends.  His suspicions were real, and his judgments unbending, but it was his unrelenting hatreds which guided his thought.  He was a legend in his own time.  \n\nMention the word 'Apache,' and Geronimo comes to mind.  He was born Goyahkla, and some claim this translates to "One Who Yawns," although many, including modern Apaches, say otherwise.  His family was the Bedonkohe branch of the Chiricahua Nation. He gave his own birth date as June 1829, but he was almost certainly born before that. His place of birth is still in question, but it is known to be located near the headwaters of the Gila River, possibly near present-day Clifton, Arizona. At the time of his birth, this area was part of Mexico. Much later, the Fort Sill Apaches would suggest his birth name meant "intelligent, shrewd, clever," descriptions which aptly suited him all his adult life.\n\nHis own family was small, but like all Apaches, Geronimo counted all his relatives as his "brothers." Chief Juh of the Nedhai band in Sonora was a true brother-in-law, as was Chief Nana of the Warm Springs band. When he later married a niece of Cochise, Geronimo acquired not only the greatest Apache leader in history as his uncle, but also Chief Mangas Coloradas of the Mimbreno band as another uncle. His closest "brothers" were Naiche, Victorio, Loco, and Chihauhau, all famous war chiefs in their time. All these men figured prominently in Apache history. Throughout his life, Geronimo’s family ties would always be very strong.\n\nGeronimo’s war with Mexico most likely started in 1835 when the Mexican state of Sonora, in an all-out effort to rid the Sierra Madres of the Nedhai band, passed a law offering one hundred pesos (roughly equal to one American dollar) for every scalp of an Apache warrior. Two years later, the state of Chihuahua set a scale of one hundred pesos for a warrior’s scalp, fifty for a woman’s, and twenty-five for a child’s. Many white mercenaries killed Apaches in the United States and took the scalps into Mexico for the bounty. It became increasingly dangerous for any Apache to live anywhere in Apacheria. With his first wife Alope, his mother Juana, and three children to support, Geronimo moved into the Big and Little Burro Mountains area of Arizona, where he met the magnificent Mimbreno leader, Mangas Coloradas, father-in-law of the famous Cochise. Geronimo formed a deep and lasting friendship with the Mimbreno chief.\n\nBy the summer of 1850, Geronimo and his Bedonkohe adherents had come under the full leadership and protection of Mangas Coloradas. On a trading trip to Casa Grandes, with the great ch
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Native Americans... but I would not put it as "disputing European land claims".... rather the question should be "Who did the Europeans steal the land from" !\nThe native americans lived in what is now called america for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived to loot and plunder and commit genocides... this sounds harsh but it is sadly true.
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Atahualpa had an army of 80,000 well-trained, seasoned troops.  Pizarro had an army of about 200 men.  \nCome on guy, use the force.