George Armstrong Custer

After the Civil War ended, Custer was offered the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the command of the 7TH Cavalry Regiment4. Custer served in many campaigns the U.S. Cavalry conducted including Major General Hancock’s campaign against the Cheyenne and the Battle of Washita River against the Black Kettle5. Sitting Bull was born in

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

Ellis on 30 March. Brigadier General George Crook, Commander of the 3rd Cavalry and companies of the 4th and 9th Infantry, moved north towards the Powder River area on 29 May. Brigadier General Alfred Terry’s 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

troops were dispatched to force the noncompliant Indians onto their reservations and to pacify the Great Plains (Powers, 2010). The Commander George Armstrong Custer was a United States cavalry officer who served with distinction in the American Civil War and was the youngest ever brevet brigadier general at age twenty-three (History.com Staff, 2009). Custer had various disciplinary issues throughout his career ranging from abandoning his post for romantic reasons to leaving the field without searching

Little Bighorn is an example of the latter and marks the “most decisive Native American victory and the worse U.S. defeat during the long Plains Indian War” (History.com Staff, 2009). The Battle of Little Bighorn Background Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led an Army expedition in the Black Hills (present-day South

Crazy Horse and Custer Comparison As being two revered warriors from completely opposite sides, General Armstrong Custer and Crazy Horse held very similar characteristics that ultimately made them tick. After doing some deep research on these two men it was almost complete fate that they met on the battlefield of Little Bighorn. To what I say that their lives were destined to go the way they did, so they would fight face to face. As for the paper goes these two men were brought up with completely

This paper takes a look at the “victory disease” as illustrated in the historic example of the Battle of Little Bighorn when Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and 210 of his men where annihilated by some 2500 warriors from the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations. Throughout history the United States military has suffered from an invincible mentality, arrogance, and complacency all built upon by numerous victories and a national psyche that creates military leaders who expect overwhelming

accounts in this book, Philbrick shows us this was not necessarily the case. Custer and his men went into the battle extremely too overconfident and he seriously underestimated the power of his opposing army. This overconfidence caused a great lack of proper preparation for the battle by the US army which ultimately helped lead to their demise in this battle. Other factors that contributed to this loss were the facts that Custer did not have such great command over some of his officers. Several of them

a vision of the American army being defeated. The Battle of Little Bighorn was a legendary battle fought between the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes against General Custer and the 7th Cavalry. The Indians were outraged as white men tried to take over their sacred land in the Black Hills. The leader of this was George Armstrong Custer, a man with great ambitions. He set his sights on the

Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and other Indian leaders battled the Seventh Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The Indian forces were victorious during this battle where they faced their much smaller in number opponent led by General George Armstrong Custer. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the events that led to the conflict, the environment of the battle ground, the disposition and composition of each side, actions, inactions taken as well as the their significance. The