Marines from the USS Decatur suppress an…
January 1856 CE
At this time, Seattle is a settlement in the Washington Territory that had recently named itself after Chief Seattle (Sealth), a leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish peoples of central Puget Sound.
Backed by artillery fire and supported by Marines from the United States Navy sloop-of-war Decatur, anchored in Elliott Bay (Seattle's harbor, at this time called Duwam-sh Bay), the settlers suffer only two deaths.
It is not known if any of the Native raiders died, though the historian Lieutenant Thomsas Stowe Phelps, an eyewitness, will write that they later "would admit" to twenty-eight dead and eighty wounded.
The battle, part of the multi-year Puget Sound War or Yakima War, lasts a single day.
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