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American Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
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American Indian Wars
Frontier conflicts in North America, 1609–1890s
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Battle of the Little Bighorn
1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
7th Cavalry Regiment
United States Army cavalry regiment
The 7th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army cavalry regiment formed in 1866. Its official nickname is "Garryowen", after the Irish air "Garryowen" that was adopted as its march tune. The regiment participated in some of the largest battles of the American Indian Wars,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lieutenant colonel
Military rank
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George Armstrong Custer
United States cavalry commander (1839–1876)
George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lakota people
Indigenous people of the Great Plains
The Lakota are a Native American people. Also known as the Teton Sioux, they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people, with the Eastern Dakota (Santee) and Western Dakota. Their current lands are in North and South Dakota. They speak Lakȟótiyapi — the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Cheyenne
American Indian tribe from the Great Plains
The Cheyenne are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains. The Cheyenne comprise two Native American tribes, the Só'taeo'o or Só'taétaneo'o and the Tsétsėhéstȧhese ; the tribes merged in the early 19th century. Today, the Cheyenne people are split into two federally recognized…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Arapaho
Native American tribe
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Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota leader (1831–1890)
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police accompanied by U.S. officers and supported by U.S. troops on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Crazy Horse
Lakota war leader (c. 1840–1877)
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