DAKOTA WAR Ep. 4 | “The Turning Tide”

Legends of the Old West

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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With Fort Ridgely reinforced, Colonel Henry Sibley sends troops on a burial mission that results in a disastrous ambush. Dakota warriors continue to sweep through the western half of Minnesota, and Colonel Sibley leads a column out of Fort Ridgely to confront the warrior army. At the Battle of Wood Lake, Sibley’s force delivers a crushing blow to the Dakota army and turns the tide of the war. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.1	Minnesota for 10 days, finally breathed a little easier.
0:56.5	The Dakota War was not done, not by any stretch of the imagination, but reinforcements had
1:01.7	arrived at the fort, and now there was very little chance it would be overrun by the Dakota.
1:07.8	During two days of nonstop assaults on the fort, about 350 soldiers and settlers held off
1:14.1	a Dakota army that numbered between 400 and 800 warriors.
1:19.3	Near the end of the second assault, the Dakota had almost captured the fort.
1:24.2	One final blast of canister shot from the fort's cannons had been enough to turn back the attackers.
1:30.3	Five days later, Colonel Henry Sibley arrived at the fort with a motley crew of 1,400 reinforcements
1:36.3	from around the area of St. Paul, Minnesota. The relief column was a mix of regular army
1:42.3	soldiers, local militiamen, and spontaneous volunteers.
1:47.0	For the exhausted and shell-shocked defenders of Fort Ridgely, they didn't care who was in the relief column.
1:53.0	They only cared that relief had arrived.
1:56.0	If the Dakota had chosen to attack during the five days between the second assault and the arrival of the reinforcements,
2:02.5	the warriors were virtually guaranteed to have taken the fort and killed everyone inside.
2:08.3	But when the sun came up on August 28th, 10 days after the Dakota started the war with the
2:13.8	destruction of the Lower Sioux Agency, the tide was turning in favor of the settlers and the soldiers.
2:20.2	During those 10 days, the Dakota had burned the Lower Sioux Agency to the ground.
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