Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne ... Eisenhower was designated Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Some 1,000 British ...

On this day—June 25, 1876—the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples united to overcome, defeat and kill the entire US Army’s 7th Cavalry led by General George Armstrong Custer. Many people ...

Custer’s attack, Dr. Hawley implies, was one of the worst-botched jobs in the annals of Indian warfare. The General split his small force (600 men of the 7th Cavalry) into three parts ...

He became the union’s youngest general at 23 and caught ... Eager to sip from the Custer cup of glory, he tagged along with the 7th Cavalry Regiment as a civilian contractor.

Teddy Roosevelt once described that as “the greatest fighting tune in the world”, an opinion broadly shared by General Custer, whose 7th Cavalry used it as their battle cry. But for the same ...

Once sung by descendants of the 7th Cavalry ... his wife at a remote army post. Custer was put in charge of the attacks on the native Americans by General Phil Sheridan, the son of two Irish ...