The Battle of Little Bighorn

June 25, 1876

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Who vs. Who?Lakota/Cheyenne/Arapaho

(Led By Sitting Bull) United States 7th Cavalry (Led By George A. Custer)

VS.

What Happened?

The Custer Battlefield as it exists today.

Gen. Custer, hot on his heels after winning several battles gathered his 700 men and launched an attack against the Lakota Indians, in Little Bighorn, MT.

What Custer didn’t know…

2,000 Indians were waiting for him.

How it breaks down…

Notice, Custer splits his Cavalry to make them appear

bigger

… bad choice.

Result…Custer, outnumbered by 1,300 – his forces cut in half –

was defeated.

…actually, it was a massacre. The Indian forces captured what would be their greatest victory in the Great Sioux War (1876-1877).

Back in “the day,” many Americans viewed Custer as a

martyr, or war hero, as opposed to a cocky general who got his

entire troop killed.

Most paintings of the era reflect this.

The Battle By Numbers…

LAKOTA2,000 Warriors

(est.)

36 Killed

168 Wounded

U.S. CAVALRY566 Troops, 31

Officers

268 Killed

55 Wounded

Sources, Permissions.

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