Industrial Age · North America · War
1876
Little Bighorn
June 25, 1876
On a Montana ridge above a Lakota and Cheyenne village of ten thousand, Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and 210 troopers of the 7th Cavalry were wiped out in an afternoon. Sitting Bull had dreamed of soldiers falling like grasshoppers. Crazy Horse led the charge. The news reached Washington during the centennial celebration, and froze it.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.