On June 25, 1876, in what is now eastern Montana, there occurred a minor military engagement along the Little Bighorn River.
The Seventh U.S. Cavalry under Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer had met up unexpectedly with the fighting men of a large Sioux and Cheyenne village, and five companies of cavalry, some 270 soldiers, were killed.
Despite the fact that no white eyewitnesses survived, the event soon became a major saga in the mythology of our country's history, and hun (showing 500 of 4494 characters). |
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