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Event Archives:Battle of Little Bighorn

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Was George Armstrong Custer Really A Terrible Strategist?

by Jerry D. Morelock1/23/20243/31/2024

Did Custer simply walk into disaster at the Little Bighorn? Here’s an in-depth look at his last military decisions.

Photo of Little Round Top, at Gettysburg National Military Park, Pa., offers a sweeping view. From this hill, on the left end of the Union line, Lt. Col. Joshua Chamberlain led the 20th Maine Volunteers in a bayonet counterattack against the 15th Alabama Infantry and other Confederate units on July 2, 1863.

The World’s Most Visitor-Friendly Battlefields

by David T. Zabecki12/22/202312/28/2023

Remembering the fallen: burials at Little Bighorn

by David Lauterborn9/15/20239/15/2023
New England Patriot Adam Vinatieri and great-great-grandfather Felix Vinatieri, George Custer's bandleader

A Wild West Reader Heralds Custer’s Bandleader, Whose Great-Great-Grandson Was an NFL Kicker

by HistoryNet Staff5/9/20223/31/2024

Custer: The Truth Behind the Silver Screen Myth

by Louis Kraft5/8/20184/19/2022
A detail of a circa-1878 lithograph called "General Custer's Death Struggle" depicts the last moments of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

An Old Army-Issue Colt Resurfaces—Did It See Battle at Little Bighorn?

by Lee A. Silva8/15/20178/5/2022

How Many Sioux and Cheyenne Died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

by Mr. History9/1/20158/19/2022
A detail of a circa-1878 lithograph called "General Custer's Death Struggle" depicts the last moments of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

A Farmer Told His Bride an Old Wound Was From a Fight With Some Indians. He Got It at Little Bighorn.

by John P. Koster4/9/200710/20/2022

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