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Custer's Division retiring from Mount Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, October 7, 1864.
庫斯特和他的軍隊 (1864年)

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庫斯特的最後據點戰役:1876625

庫斯特的部隊從北方攻擊印第安人。然而,庫斯特和二百多位手下很快就被印第安人包圍,在不到一小時的時間裡,全軍遭到殲滅。印第安人在兩天之後撤退,而當時庫斯特本來要等待的援軍也趕到了。

這場小大角之戰是美國原住民得到的短暫勝利。聯邦軍隊後來很快就攻入黑山。不過,當許多美國原住民印第安人投降時,酋長「坐著的公牛」已經逃到加拿大去了。


Custer's troops charged the Indians from the north. Quickly encircled by their enemy, Custer and more than 200 of his soldiers were killed in less than an hour. The Indians retreated two days later when the troops Custer had been ordered to wait for arrived.

The Battle of Little Big Horn was a short-lived victory for the Native Americans. Federal troops soon poured into the Black Hills. While many Native Americans surrendered, Sitting Bull escaped to Canada.

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