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Custer's Last Stand

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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


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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.
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.
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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