Custer

of the Sioux, he ordered his regiment to attack. Custer was overwhelmed by the number of Native Americans and he and his whole regiment died on what is now known as Custer Hill. The other force barely escaped and suffered casualties as well. In the end, the Battle of Little Bighorn was a disaster for the United States. When the American public heard of the "slaughter" of Custer and his troops, their main reaction was disbelief and outrage. Custer had been a celebrity to them. He had been the great

Little Bighorn is attributed to his lack of adherence to what we now know as the characteristics of the offense: surprise, concentration, audacity and tempo. By allowing the tribal Indians to observe his movement during the early stages of the battle Custer lost the ability to surprise the enemy with a direct attack and his decision to divide his elements while facing a larger enemy force prevented him from concentrating his fires and effectively massing their effects on the enemy. The Battle of Little

It took place along the Little Bighorn River in what is now the state of Montana. The battle was fought during a sweltering summer day on June 25, 1876 between the United States Army’s Seventh Calvary Regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and the Sioux and Cheyenne American Indian tribes led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The significant history leading up to this fantastic battle and all aspects of the opposing forces such as command and control, composition, and strategic and

As a cadet at West Point, Custer had promptly raced to the bottom of the academic standings not because he couldn't master the material but because he couldn't give a damn. He had the easy charm of a natural slacker; he made himself popular with his classmates by playing coarse practical jokes on the underclassmen; he was full of bonhomie and high spirits and good fun to the friends who worshiped him and somewhat of a bastard to everyone else. Most of his biographers write about his "pranks" and

"The only good Indians I ever saw were dead." Those were the infamous words of General Philip H. Sheridan to a Comanche Chief named Toch-a-way when the chief introduced himself as “a good Indian.” General Sheridan wasn’t the first to see it that and way and he surely wasn’t the last. There is evidence to conclude that a genocide did in fact happen to the Native Americans. Native Americans also known as Indians have been persecuted and targeted from the day the first Europeans stepped foot

The Battle of Little Bighorn In 1876, Chief Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull fought and defeated the U.S Army’s troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, leaders of the Sioux tribe on the Great Plains, strongly resisted the mid-19th-century efforts of the U.S. government to confine their people to reservations. In 1875, after gold was discovered in South Dakota’s Black Hills, the U.S. Army ignored

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a non-fiction book written by Dee Brown on the removal and extinction of the native peoples that called America their home. The title was created by utilizing a line from Stephen Vincent Benét’s poem “American Names”. Furthermore, the book demonstrates the deteriorating relations between the natives and whites over time through the descriptions of atrocities imposed upon each Native American tribe by the white settlers. The number of these atrocities greatly outnumbers

When young people think about George Armstrong Custer, they think of Bill Hader’s portal of the general in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. General Custer was a commander during the Battle of Little Bighorn. The battle of Little Bighorn has helped shape United States History. The events leading up to the battle, the battle itself, and the events after the battle will be learned about for many years to come. In the years leading up to 1876 white settlers began to move west. Acts like

column, containing the 7th Cavalry and companies from the 17th infantry, moved westward from Fort Abraham Lincoln on 17 May. In early June Terry and Gibson, link forces near Rosebud Creek. Terry made the determination that Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer, would take the 7th Cavalry and proceed south, following Rosebud Creek. The 31 officers and 566 enlisted men of the 7th Cavalry departed south on a reconnaissance mission on 22 June 1876. For some this would be their final mission in US military

the Montana region. The reason the war began in the first place was due to gold being found on the Native lands. The war was a fight between the 7th Calvary and Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Wikipedia states that “Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led the 7th Calvary Regiment and Crazy Horse, Chief Gail and Sitting Bull led the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians”. It also states that by the end of the battle there were 268 casualties and 55 severely wounded, as well as four more deaths resulting from