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In a time before US Naval dominance, the not-quite-yet imperial power decided to modernize its Navy to a level that might enable it to compete with its European counterparts.

Instead, they created the USS Massachusetts and the Indiana Class. A battleship that was not a battleship, with guns so large they were more hazardous to the ship itself than any enemy, and so impossible to control the Navy kept crashing it into rocks.

There are two battleships named the USS Massachusetts. This is the BB-2. The one that fought in WWII is the BB-59

Sources:

Gardiner, Robert; Lambert, Andrew D. (1992). Steam, Steel & Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815–1905

https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2016/07/diving_the_worst_battleship_ev.html

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/june/race-uss-oregon

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/uss-massachusetts-why-worst-us-navy-battleship-ever-210474

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-epic-journey-of-uss-oregon-during-the-spanish-american-war/

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/03/26/117958746.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/08/24/105058393.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/16/120273752.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/12/02/104844371.pdf

Nate emerges from a vat of paprikas boykibble to take the reins and bring us the story of The Battle of Haçova, a decisive clash between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, the implications of the Hamburger Helper Mascot, and Smurf racism.

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In the aftermath of the Sand Creek Massacre, the traditional governance of the Cheyenne people fracture, the pro-peace chiefs lose power, and warrior societies promise revenge against the settlers and military for their crimes.

A band of warriors trap a small patrol of American soldiers and frontiersmen leading to a plains siege that forces soldiers to eat raw horse meat and then get violently ill because they were eating raw horse meat.

SOURCES:

Norris, David. Desperate Last Stand At Beecher Island. Military Heritage. August 2012. Volume 14, No 2.

Mort, Terry. Cheyenne Summer. The Battle of Beecher Island: A History

Yenne, Bill. The Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West

Monnett, John. The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867- 1869

Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Fighting Cheyennes.

Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways.

https://the-past.com/feature/looking-death-in-the-face-the-battle-for-beecher-island-september-1868/

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US Forces lie to the people of the Great Plains, convince them they are under the protection of the US government for the purpose of negotiations and commit a crime so horrible that it forces congress to investigate.

*correction. Several Medals of Honor have been revoked. Specifically in 1917. This had nothing to do with conduct but rather a changing of criteria of what was considered worthy of the medal.

SOURCES:

Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Fighting Cheyennes.

Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways.

Hatch, Thom (2004). Black Kettle: The Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War.

Hoig, Stan (1977). The Sand Creek Massacre.

Hoig, Stan (1980). The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyenne

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Bensing, Tom. Silas Soule: A Short Eventful Life of Moral Courage.

Report of the US Congress Joint Committee On The Conduct of the War. 1865. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABY3709.0003.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;cc=moa