Battle of Crooked River

Name: Battle of Crooked River
Start: 1838

1838 CE.

Shown on the map at 39.497°, -94.127°.

The Battle of Crooked River was a skirmish that occurred on October 25, 1838, and was a major escalator of the 1838 Mormon War. A Mormon rescue party, led by David W. Patten, formed to free three Mormon captives taken from Caldwell County the day prior, clashed with a Ray County militia company commanded by Samuel Bogart southeast of Elmira, Missouri. Exaggerated reports of the battle led Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs to issue Executive Order 44, resulting in the forced expulsion of the Mormons from the state.

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