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- a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
- a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand
How To Use Little Bighorn In A Sentence
- —Stowed in a warehouse with a leaky skylight is one of this city's remaining valuable assets: a U.S. Cavalry horse's hoof purportedly found on the battlefield at Little Bighorn, the site of Lt. Col. Harrisburg Is Having a Yard Sale—Wanna Buy a Stuffed Buffalo?
- On December 28 they were intercepted by the 7th Cavalry, the same branch of the U. S. Army that was headed by George Armstrong Custer in 1876 at the Little Bighorn. Tim Giago: December 29, 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy' for the Lakota
- It should have surprised no one that two years later, on a hot, windless afternoon in June 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by the Sioux near a river in southeastern Montana called the Little Bighorn. Betrayed!
- “He was wiped out with some two hundred and fifty men at the Little Bighorn, which is a creek in Montana, I believe.” Telegraph Days
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument memorizes one of the last armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians to preserve their ancestral way of life.
- For the economist, the Little Bighorn debacle is an excellent example of public choice economics in action. Custer and Public Choice Economics
- The chief played a part in the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 and, in all likelihood, the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 alongside legendary Sioux leader Crazy Horse. At Auction: Sioux Shirt Woven Into History
- Thwarting a U.S. raid at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, Sioux and Cheyenne braves took no prisoners, killing Custer and 265 of his men.
- He was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, against a coalition of Native American tribes, an event popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand".
- Sighting a distant Indian encampment near the Little Bighorn, Custer prepared an attack on June 25, 1876. Little Bighorn, Large Legend
