History of the United States II / Unit 2 USH2 0178 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Little Bighorn
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The idea
On June twenty-fifth, eighteen seventy-six, nearly three thousand Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho under Sitting Bull defeated Custer's Seventh Cavalry at the Little Bighorn.
In practice
Custer and more than two hundred sixty of his men killed.
Where people slip
The anchor counts two hundred sixty-two men with Custer; Digital History counts two hundred sixty-four. Five years of warfare then confined the Sioux to reservations.
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