The American West
1846–1890
The American West (1846–1890). You start as Private and could rise all the way to Major, if you survive. This era covers 25 historical battles.
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- Private
- Corporal
- Sergeant
- First Sergeant
- Lieutenant
- Captain
- Major
Historical battles
| Year | Battle | Est. casualties |
|---|---|---|
| 1846 | Battle of Palo AltoGeneral Taylor's artillery drove back the Mexican army on the Texas border. The Mexican–American War had begun. | ≈2% |
| 1846 | Battle of MonterreyThree days of street fighting, and Monterrey fell. | ≈7% |
| 1847 | Battle of Buena VistaOutnumbered, Taylor still threw back Santa Anna. | ≈9% |
| 1847 | Battle of ChapultepecThe Americans stormed the castle outside Mexico City. The next year, Mexico ceded a vast stretch of its north. | ≈6% |
| 1855 | Battle of Blue Water CreekColonel Harney attacked a Lakota camp. Most of the dead were women and children. | ≈1% |
| 1858 | Battle of Four LakesAn alliance of tribes was defeated in Washington Territory. | ≈1% |
| 1858 | Battle of Antelope HillsThe Rangers crossed the Red River in pursuit of the Comanche. | ≈3% |
| 1861 | First Battle of Bull RunBoth sides thought one battle would end the war. Washington gentry who came to watch fled back to the city. | ≈4% |
| 1862 | Battle of ShilohTwo days of slaughter — more casualties than all of America's earlier wars combined. | ≈10% |
| 1862 | Battle of AntietamThe bloodiest single day in American history. | ≈12% |
| 1862 | Battle of FredericksburgWave after wave of Union soldiers charged the Confederates behind the stone wall. | ≈10% |
| 1863 | Battle of ChancellorsvilleLee won against the odds, but "Stonewall" Jackson was shot by his own men. | ≈10% |
| 1863 | Battle of GettysburgPickett's Charge failed. The South never invaded the North again. | ≈22% |
| 1863 | Siege of VicksburgForty-seven days of siege. The town ate mules and rats. The Mississippi fell to the Union. | ≈6% |
| 1864 | Battle of the WildernessThe woods caught fire, and wounded men who couldn't move burned alive. | ≈15% |
| 1864 | Battle of AtlantaSherman took Atlanta, then marched to the sea. | ≈8% |
| 1865 | AppomattoxLee surrendered. Four years of civil war were over, and more than 600,000 were dead. | ≈2% |
| 1866 | Fetterman FightEighty-one soldiers were lured into a Sioux and Cheyenne ambush. None survived. | ≈30% |
| 1868 | Battle of the WashitaCuster struck a Cheyenne winter camp at dawn and killed many women and children. | ≈2% |
| 1874 | Red River WarThe army burned Comanche winter camps and horse herds, forcing the southern Plains tribes onto reservations. | ≈2% |
| 1876 | Battle of the RosebudCrazy Horse's warriors stopped General Crook in his tracks. | ≈3% |
| 1876 | Battle of the Little BighornCuster and more than two hundred men of the 7th Cavalry were killed to the last man. | ≈35% |
| 1877 | Battle of Bear PawChief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered: "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." | ≈5% |
| 1879 | Battle of Milk CreekThe Ute pinned the cavalry down in a valley for a week. | ≈6% |
| 1886 | The hunt for GeronimoFive thousand soldiers chased fewer than forty Apache. Geronimo finally surrendered. | ≈1% |
Casualty rates are the game's estimates from historical sources, used to work out the chance of dying. Treat them as approximate.
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