U.S. Colonel of Volunteers Theodore Roosevelt, commanding his own Unauthorized Regiment used his outnumbered forces to delay the invasion. Meanwhile Brevet Colonel Henry Welton awaited reinforcements from Utah in Great Falls, Montana with his Seventh Infantry Regiment. These were the Fifth Cavalry Regiment along with a detachment of eight Gatling guns lead by Brevet Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer. After Custer's arrival, he and Roosevelt's cavalry advanced ahead leaving Colonel Welton to form up a defense position along the Teton River with his infantry and the Gatlings.
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