Custer makes last stand at Little Bighorn 140 years ago today (June 25 1876)


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(Sunday, June 25, 1876; during the Great Sioux War of 1876) — Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out today by Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.