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- proper noun The place near the Little Bighorn River, the site of Custer's Last Stand.
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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
- noun a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand
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Examples
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“He was wiped out with some two hundred and fifty men at the Little Bighorn, which is a creek in Montana, I believe.”
Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006
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It should have surprised no one that two years later, on a hot, windless afternoon in June 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by the Sioux near a river in southeastern Montana called the Little Bighorn.
Betrayed! Patricia Calvert 2002
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It should have surprised no one that two years later, on a hot, windless afternoon in June 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by the Sioux near a river in southeastern Montana called the Little Bighorn.
Betrayed! Patricia Calvert 2002
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It should have surprised no one that two years later, on a hot, windless afternoon in June 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by the Sioux near a river in southeastern Montana called the Little Bighorn.
Betrayed! Patricia Calvert 2002
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—Stowed in a warehouse with a leaky skylight is one of this city's remaining valuable assets: a U.S. Cavalry horse's hoof purportedly found on the battlefield at Little Bighorn, the site of Lt. Col.
Harrisburg Is Having a Yard Sale—Wanna Buy a Stuffed Buffalo? Michael Corkery 2011
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On December 28 they were intercepted by the 7th Cavalry, the same branch of the U. S. Army that was headed by George Armstrong Custer in 1876 at the Little Bighorn.
Tim Giago: December 29, 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy' for the Lakota Tim Giago 2011
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On December 28 they were intercepted by the 7th Cavalry, the same branch of the U. S. Army that was headed by George Armstrong Custer in 1876 at the Little Bighorn.
Tim Giago: December 29, 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy' for the Lakota Tim Giago 2011
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The chief played a part in the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 and, in all likelihood, the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 alongside legendary Sioux leader Crazy Horse.
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For the economist, the Little Bighorn debacle is an excellent example of public choice economics in action.
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Sighting a distant Indian encampment near the Little Bighorn, Custer prepared an attack on June 25, 1876.
Little Bighorn, Large Legend Roger D. McGrath 2010
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