RED SABBATH : The Battle of Little Bighorn
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There are few battles in the sometime bloody history of the expansion of European influence in North America that are more famous than Little Big Horn. The romantic view of Custer's last stand against the marauding hordes in Indians has achieved iconic status but the reality was somewhat different as recent research has shown.
The Battle of Little Big Horn - or Custer's Last Stand as it has become known - was the culmination of a process of attrition between the native Americans and the European settlers. The latter saw, in the land controlled by the Indians, great wealth as the result of the discovery of gold; the former, however, saw the arrival of the Europeans as a major threat to their life-style and to their future.
On 25 June 1876 this clash of cultures came to be settled by force of arms as the 7th Cavalry under Custer came upon the native American camp. The resulting battle was the stuff of legends, but legends based upon misconceptions and lack of knowledge - no member of the 7th Cavalry survived to tell their tale and the Indians had no need to record their triumph.
RED SABBATH: The Battle of Little Bighorn,Robert Kershaw,Ian Allan Publishing,0711030251,History,History - Military / War,History: American,History: World,Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876,Military - United States,Modern - 19th Century,Native American,United States - 19th Century/Old West,American history: c 1800 to c 1900,Battles & campaigns,History / Modern / 19th Century,USA,c 1800 to c 1900
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