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- noun 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
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Examples
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This is a history covering Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Another book sale windfall Tripp 2007
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This assignment had a very low risk assessment, a Class-3 mission, the narrator confides in the reader, not like Class-1 mission, The Battle of Little Bighorn or the Titanic.
Archive 2007-08-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2007
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This is a history covering Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Archive 2007-06-01 Tripp 2007
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He has co-authored several books about these projects including They Died With Custer: Soldiers 'Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1998) and Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of Little Bighorn (2000).
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The opening of the Black Hills to settlement by whites in 1874 led to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Black Hills 2002
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The Welsh Government claimed the Prime Minister had his facts wrong and compared him to Custer - a US general remembered for the defeat he suffered when overwhelmed by Native American fighters in 1876 at the Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012
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They decided to carve a rival monument to Native Americans featuring Crazy Horse, a Sioux warrior who helped lead one of the most famous Indian victories over the U.S. Army -- annihilating much of General George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
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A flag carried by Lt Col George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops into their last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn sells at auction for $2.2m £1.4m.
BBC News - Home 2010
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A flag carried by Lt Col George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops into their last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn sells at auction for $2.2m £1.4m.
BBC News - Home 2010
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A flag carried by Lt Col George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops into their last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn sells at auction for $2.2m £1.4m.
BBC News - Home 2010
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