7920 x 6236 px | 67,1 x 52,8 cm | 26,4 x 20,8 inches | 300dpi
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On the morning of June 25 1876 Lieutenant Colonel George A Custer and the 7th Cavalry charged into battle against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians Custer s orders were to wait for reinforcements at the mouth of the Little Big Horn River before attacking the Indians but Chief Sitting Bull had been spotted nearby and Custer was impatient to attack. The Battle of the Little Bighorn—also known as Custer's Last Stand, and, in the parlance of the relevant Native Americans, the Battle of the Greasy Grass—was an armed engagement between a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army. It occurred between June 25 and June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in the eastern Montana Territory. The battle was the most famous action of the Indian Wars, and was a remarkable victory for the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne. A sizeable force of U.S. cavalry commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was defeated; Custer himself was killed in the engagement along with two of his brothers. It was, however, not the highest infliction of casualties by Native Americans against U.S. forces, which occurred in the 1791 Battle of the Wabash.
