- Date
- June 25–26, 1876
- Location
- Near Little Bighorn River, Montana, U.S.
- Result
- Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho victory
- Part of
- Great Sioux War of 1876
- Conflict
- Indian Campaigns
About the battle
The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand and known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. Most battles in the Great Sioux War, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, were on lands those natives had taken from other tribes since 1851. The Lakota were there without consent from the local Crow tribe, which had a treaty claim on the area.
From the Wikipedia article “Battle of the Little Bighorn”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Result, date and location from the article’s infobox and Wikidata.
