jun 25, 1876 - Jun 25, 1876: Battle of Little Bighorn

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Custer and nearly half of the 7th Cavalry Regiment were annihilated.

Although stunned by the defeat, soldiers soon began combing the region once more...Army expeditions...maintained the pressure throughout the winter and well into the following year...

But it was the relentless onslaught and devastating economic blows delivered by the army’s field columns, not pitched battles, that most seriously affected Native American resistance.

A few hundred Indians fled with Sitting Bull into Canada;

the remaining Plains peoples, however, agreed to move to reservations.

Desperate attempts by the Cheyenne in the late 1870s to return to their former homelands failed, often with heavy casualties, and the Plains Wars came to a close.

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