little bighorn
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The Battle of Little Bighorn
June 25, 1876
DAMIAN MASTER
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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DAMIAN MASTER