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Major conflict1876

Battle of the Little Bighorn

Little Bighorn River · Montana Territory

Estimated casualties

270 – 320estimated dead

Roughly 268 U.S. soldiers and scouts killed (including Custer's entire immediate command of ~210); Native dead estimated around 30-100.

SOURCEWikipedia: Battle of the Little Bighorn

On 25-26 June 1876, combined Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho forces annihilated five companies of the U.S. 7th Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer along the Little Bighorn River, the most famous Native American victory of the Plains wars (Custer's Last Stand).

Belligerents2

  • United States
  • Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho

Conflict graph

PART OFGreat Sioux War

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of the Little Bighorn
  2. Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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