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The Battle of Sitka (Russian: Сражение при Ситке; 1804) was the last major armed conflict between Russians and Alaska Natives, and was initiated in response to the destruction of a Russian trading post two years before.
5 lut 2021 · In 1804, Tlingit warriors sheltered behind the walls of a wooden fort on a peninsula in southeastern Alaska, preparing to repel a Russian amphibious assault. An archaeological survey near the ...
25 sty 2021 · Russian Commander Iurii Lisianskii’s 1804 outline drawing of the Tlingit fort used to defend against Russia’s colonization forces. Cornell and U.S. National Park Service researchers have pinpointed the fort’s exact location in Sitka, Alaska.
25 sty 2021 · The Kiks.adi defenders of the "sapling fort" attempted to prevent the Russian invasion of the region in the Battle of Sitka in 1804 in this painting by Louis S. Glanzman.
28 sty 2021 · According to NBC News, researchers on Baranof Island have just unearthed the remnants of a 200-year-old Indigenous fort used as a defensive base against the Russian invasion of 1804. According to Archaeology, this trapezoidal fort measured about 240 in length and 165 feet in width.
18 lut 2021 · In 1804, indigenous Tlingit people living near the Alaskan town of Sitka went to war with the Russians. Russian fur traders, actually, and their battle would have far reaching consequences, not...
25 sty 2021 · The Tlingit built what they called Shiskinoow – the “sapling fort” – on a peninsula in modern-day Sitka, Alaska, where the mouth of Kasda Heen (Indian River) meets Sitka Sound at the Sitka National Historical Park.
