Black Hills War
United States history [1876]
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American westward movement
- In American frontier: How the West was won
…American resistance led to the Black Hills War, a clash that reached its apotheosis in the Battle of Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876). The annihilation of a U.S. 7th Cavalry detachment under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer by a force led by Sitting Bull was a tactical victory for the…
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history of Black Hills
- In Black Hills
…that influx led to the Black Hills War (1876), the high point of which was the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Despite that Native American victory, the U.S. government was able to force the Sioux to relinquish their treaty rights to the Black Hills in 1877, by which time the…
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