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• Wounded Knee Massacre — Part of the Ghost Dance War, Sioux Wars Mass grave for the dead Lakota after the massacre at W …   Wikipedia

• Wounded Knee, Battle of — (1890)    In 1890, the U.S. Army went to the Sioux reservation in South Dakota to arrest Chief Sitting Bull. The federal government feared that Sitting Bull was encouraging the Sioux to attack white settlements. As the army attempted to arrest… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

• Killed in action — (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces.[1] The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired… …   Wikipedia

• Wounded Knee — Wounded Knee, Battle of the last important battle between the US army and the Native Americans, which took place at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. US soldiers killed almost 200 Sioux people, including women and children, and the battle… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Wounded Knee — a village in SW South Dakota: site of a massacre of about 300 Oglala Sioux Indians on Dec. 29, 1890. * * * Hamlet and creek in southwestern South Dakota, the site of two conflicts between the Sioux Indians and the U.S. government. In 1890 the… …   Universalium

• Wounded Knee, South Dakota — Infobox Settlement official name = Wounded Knee, South Dakota other name = native name = nickname = settlement type = CDP motto = imagesize = image caption = flag size = image seal size = image shield = shield size = image blank emblem = blank… …   Wikipedia

• Wounded in action — WIA is a three letter abbreviation standing for Wounded In Action.It is used to describe soldiers who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during war time, but have not been killed. Typically it implies that they are temporarily or… …   Wikipedia

• Wounded Personnel Medal — Infobox Military Award name=Wounded Personnel Medal caption= awarded by=the Republic of the Philippines type=Medal eligibility=Military Personnel for=receiving wounds while involved in actual combat with an enemy campaign= status=Currently… …   Wikipedia

• Wounded Knee — a village in SW South Dakota: site of a massacre of about 300 Oglala Sioux Indians on Dec. 29, 1890. * * * Wounded Knee [Wounded Knee] a small river in the US state of ↑South Dakota where US soldiers killed more than 200 Native American men,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Killed In Action — Denkmal in Bergisel (A)für die 1866 gefallenen Kaiserjäger Grabstein mit dem Eisernen Kreuz und der Inschrift Mit Gott für König und Vaterland …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Wounded Knee — site of a battle between white American settlers and American Indians in which large numbers of Sioux Indians were killed (U.S. History) …   English contemporary dictionary