Information: - The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, and mail. - The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California. After it was established, the first half of the California Trail followed the same corridor of networked river valley trails as the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail, namely the valleys of the Platte, North Platte and Sweetwater rivers to Wyoming. In the present states of Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah, the California and Oregon trails split into several different trails or cutoffs. - The First Battle of Pyramid Lake in 1860 was one of the opening conflicts of the Paiute War in Nevada between the American people and the Paiute people, who had resisted the increasing numbers of migrants who traveled the California Trail through their territory, taking scarce game and water resources, as well as altercations with the Pony Express. - The Second Battle of Pyramid Lake ( a.k.a. Battle of Truckee River ) took place in response to the U.S. defeat at the First Battle of Pyramid Lake . A well - organized force of militia and regulars , under the capable leadership of famed Texas Ranger Col. John C. '' Jack '' Hays , defeated the Paiute warriors under Chief Numaga . This was the final engagement of the Pyramid Lake War of 1860 . - The Paiute War, also known as the Pyramid Lake War, Washoe Indian War and the Pah Ute War, was an armed conflict between Northern Paiutes allied with the Shoshone and the Bannock against intruding settlers from the United States, supported by military forces. It took place in May 1860 in the vicinity of Pyramid Lake in the Utah Territory, now in the northwest corner of present US state of Nevada. The war was preceded by a series of increasingly violent incidents, culminating in two pitched battles in which approximately eighty settlers were killed. The number of Paiutes killed in action is unrecorded. Smaller raids and skirmishes continued until a cease-fire was agreed to in August 1860; there was no treaty. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'second battle of pyramid lake' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - armed conflict - august - battle - conflict - continent - game - lake - military - number - opening - pony - river - service - trail - valley - war
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