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Where did the Battle of The Little Bighorn take place?
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January 01, 2018 7:40AM
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Lakota Sioux, as The Battle of The Greasy Grass, took place on June 25th, 1876 on a bend of the Little Bighorn River in what is now Big Horn County in southeastern Montana.
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Why did the Battle of the Little Bighorn take place?

Sioux and Cheyenne Indians were upset with whites who
continually intruded into their sacred lands in the Black Hills,
and defiantly left their reservations in late 1875. They gathered
with Sitting Bull in Montana. The government tried to persuade them
to go back to the reservation and they refused. The government
labeled them as hostile, and sent the army to deal with them.
Custer, leading the 7th Cavalry, came upon the Indians camped in
the Bighorn Valley. There were no survivors in the Cavalry unit
after the battle.
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