George Custer
George Custer was a U.S.
Army cavalry commander best known for his catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, where he and over 260 soldiers were killed by Lakota and Cheyenne warriors.
The phrase Custer's Last Stand has become shorthand for a doomed final effort against overwhelming odds.
- cavalryMounted military force
- Little Bighorn1876 Montana battle site
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- Great PlainsCentral North American grassland
Sioux · Lakota · Native American · last stand · buckskin · sabers · cavalry charge · Montana · frontier · wild west · general · mustache · glory · hubris · ambush · soldiers · arrows · bugle
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- U.S. GeneralsEisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Grant, Lee
- Civil War Cavalrycavalry charge, cavalry regiment, cavalry saber, cavalry brigade, cavalry division
- Civil War FiguresRobert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln
- military figuressoldier, general, corporal, private, lieutenant
- South DakotaMount Rushmore, Badlands, Black Hills, Sioux Falls, Pierre
military outcome
George CusterSitting Bull
Lakota spiritual leader
Crazy Horse · Red Cloud · Chief Joseph · Ulysses S. Grant · William Tecumseh Sherman