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Tree: 4-22-08
Notes: The Battle of the Little Bighorn—also known as Custer's Last Stand, and, in the parlance of the relevant Native Americans, the Battle of the Greasy Grass—was an armed engagement between a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army. It occurred on June 25 and June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in the eastern Montana Territory.
The battle was the most famous action of the Indian Wars, and was a remarkable victory for the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne, led by Sitting Bull. The U.S. Seventh Cavalry, including a column of 700 men led by George Armstrong Custer, was defeated. Five of the Seventh's companies were annihilated and Custer himself was killed as were two of his brothers and a brother-in-law. This battle did not inflict the highest number of casualties by Native Americans against U.S. forces. That record was set in 1791 at the Battle of the Wabash.
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Battle of Little Big Horn - Montana "Casters Last Stand"
On Sunday, June 25, 1876 General George Armstrong Custer led five companies of The Seventh Cavalry into the valley of unspeakable death and one of the most tragic historical dramas of our time. More than two hundred and sixty soldiers were killed and even though four thousand brave Sioux and Cheyenne warriors experienced a glorious victory, the…
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