USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On June 25, 1876, Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River.

Detailed explanation-2: -In less than an hour, the Sioux and Cheyenne had won the Battle of the Little Bighorn, killing Custer and every one of his men. The battle has been ennobled as “Custer’s Last Stand”-but in truth, Custer and his men never stood a fighting chance.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer’s Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty.

Detailed explanation-4: -On June 25 and 26, on the Greasy Grass River (which is now known as the Little Bighorn), 2, 000 Lakota and Cheyenne, who are defending their summer hunting camp, fight and defeat U.S. troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. Custer and the 209 soldiers fighting under him are killed.

Detailed explanation-5: -The so-called Plains Wars essentially ended later in 1876, when American troops trapped 3, 000 Sioux at the Tongue River valley; the tribes formally surrendered in October, after which the majority of members returned to their reservations.