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This is about the true story of the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana, North America.
By Mark on January 20, 2010
This is a post about little horn valley in North America, I am not an historian and i do not know alot about what happened at Little Bighorn Valley, but, what i do know is that if anybody was to come into my neighbourhood and try to take it over by force, then of course i would defend my territory. Now even though the americans caused alot of grief to the Indigenous peoples, Native Americans or Indians, these peoples did also attack their own kind in many different and horrific ways. So in some way they were both as bad as each other.
This battle was to do with General George Armstrong Custer and his last stand in fighting, it was a battle between the Lakota–Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, which took place on the 25th and the 26th June, 1876. So it was known as Custer’s Last Stand by the American army and known as the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek by the Native Americans. The fight itself took place near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, near what is now Crow Agency, Montana.
The title for the whole war was the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, it was also known as the Black Hills War. The battle ended up becoming a major victory he Lakota and Northern Cheyenne, led by Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake). The U.S. Seventh Cavalry, which included a total of 700 men and was lead by General Custer, well they were destroyed. The seven companies built up the Seventh Calvary and five of those companies were just destroyed, meaning that 268 Americans lost their lives and 55 on top were wounded, not only did Custer die, but his two of brother’s and a nephew and brother-in-law were also killed. This was though not the highest amount of American soldiers to die in one go.
Because of what happened in the Great Sioux War, this effected the americans deeply and even today, people and historians still question whether General Custer did do the right thing, for the Americans. Just for you guys the worst ever defeat of american soldiers was back in 1791, at the Battle of the Wabash, when the army lost more than 600 soldiers.
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