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crook, george

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Crook   (krŏŏk)   
American general who defeated the Sioux (1876) and subdued the Chiricahua Apaches under Geronimo (1883).
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Crook, George

American army officer in the American Civil War and in the Indian conflicts of the West. General William Tecumseh Sherman called him the best of the Indian fighters and managers

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