June 25, 1876 – June 26, 1876

• Custer’s Last Stand
•  in southeastern Montana Territory
• Lt Colonel George Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn
• 31 officers, 586 soldiers, 33 Indian scouts and 20 civilian employees
• June 26 = 262 were dead, 68 were wounded and six later died of their wounds
• overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, who were led by Crazy Horse & others