On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.
čete američke vojske opkolile su Sioux tabor kod potoka Wounded Knee i poubijale 300 ratnih zarobljenika zajedno s poglavicom Velikim Stopalom, koristeći novo oružje koje izbacuje eksplozivne čahure nazvan Hotchkiss pištolj.