Industrial Age · North America · War
1877
Nez Perce Flight
1877
Refusing to move to a reservation, Chief Joseph led eight hundred Nez Perce - men, women, children, elders - on a seventeen-hundred-mile fighting retreat toward Canada, outmaneuvering US pursuit for months. Caught thirty miles from the border in the Montana snow, Joseph surrendered: "I will fight no more forever." The speech entered the language.
In context
Also in 1877 (5 other events on record)
- Edison's Phonograph · North America · Technology
- Satsuma Rebellion · East Asia · War
- Russo-Turkish War · Middle East · War
- Compromise of 1877 · North America · Politics
- Great Railroad Strike · North America · Politics
Before and after in North America
- Before: June 25, 1876: Little Bighorn
- After: 1878: Edison's Light Bulb Work
Before and after in War
- Before: June 25, 1876: Little Bighorn
- After: 1878: Second Anglo-Afghan War
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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