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A river, about 145 km (90 mi) long, rising in the Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming and flowing north to the Bighorn River in southern Montana. Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated the forces of Gen. George A. Custer in the Little Bighorn valley on June 25, 1876.
A battlefield on the north side of the Little Bighorn River now known as Custer Ridge. In June 1876 the US Seventh Cavalry was defeated by a large force of Cheyenne and Sioux Indians there. The cavalry force was led by Lt. Col. Custer. The battle lasted less than an hour and left 210 men of the US cavalry dead. Recent archaeological investigations have attempted to reconstruct the progress of the battle from the distribution of spent cartridge shells from the Springfield carbines and Colt revolvers used by the US cavalry.
[Rep.: R. A. Fox Jr, 1993, Archaeology, history and Custer's last battle: the Little Big Horn reexamined. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press]
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand
Synonyms: Little Bighorn, Little Horn
The Little Bighorn River is a tributary of the Bighorn River in the United States in the states of Wyoming and Montana. The river is somewhat infamous as the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
The Little Bighorn rises in extreme northern Wyoming, along the north side of the Bighorn Mountains. It flows northward into Montana and across the Crow Indian Reservation, past the town of Crow Agency, and joins the Bighorn near the town of Hardin.
The battle site, which is on the grounds of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, is approximately five miles south of Crow Agency, along the eastern side of the river.
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