Wakarusa War

Wakarusa War
	Part of Bleeding Kansas
Date	November–December 1855
Location	Douglas County, Kansas
Result	Stalemate
Belligerents
Free-State abolitionists	Pro-slavery settlers
Commanders and leaders
Charles L. Robinson; James Lane; John Brown	Samuel J. Jones; David Rice Atchison
Strength
800	1500
Casualties and losses
	2 dead

The Wakarusa War was a skirmish that happened in Kansas Territory. It started on November 21st, and it ended on December 8th, 1885.^[1] It was part of the Bleeding Kansas violence. It happened mostly in Lawrence and the Wakarusa River Valley.

↑ "Wakarusa War". Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865. Retrieved 2018-11-16.