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TIL about the Sand Creek Battle that occurred on November 1864 when a 675 man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory killing and mutilating an estimated 69 to over 600 Native American people.

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