Little Bighorn, Battle of the

or Custer's Last Stand

(June 25, 1876) Battle at the Little Bighorn River, Montana Territory, U.S., between federal troops led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and a band of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. The U.S. government had ordered the northern Plains tribes to return to designated reservations and had sent troops under Gen. Alfred H. Terry to enforce the order. Terry hoped to surround an Indian encampment at the mouth of the Little Bighorn, but a party of some 200 soldiers led by Custer launched an early attack and was slaughtered. Government troops subsequently flooded into the area and forced the Indians to surrender.

Custer’s Last Stand

U.S. troops led by Col. Custer are massacred by the Indians at Little Big Horn, Montana (1877). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 701]

See : Wild West

A special section on Custer's Last Stand points out that some of the enlisted men with Custer had no training in combat and marksmanship and wound up easy prey for the Cheyenne and Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn.

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As any US public school attending student will tell you, the Cold War was when we beat Lewis and Clark at Pearl Harbor to avenge Custer's Last Stand.

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He remembers his father's stories of having visited in Prince Albert the camp of Sitting Bull following Custer's Last Stand.

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