Having studied the map and written evidence who in your own opinion should be held mostly responsible for the defeat of the 3rd century cavalry on June 25th 1876.

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Thursday 14th June 2001                               806                      Vikki   Stonehouse

Having studied the map and written evidence who in your own opinion should be held mostly responsible for the defeat of the 3rd century cavalry on June 25th 1876.

        

On June 25th 1876 General George Armstrong Custer and 225 men of the U.S. 7th cavalry were wiped out by Sioux Indians, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, at the battle of the Little Big Horn. It was the worst defeat suffered by the U.S. army in the wars against Indians. There are a lot of variations of what people say happened in this essay I want to hopefully awnser the question who in my opinion should be held mostly responsible for the defeat of the 3rd century cavalry on June 25th 1876.

        Here are some statements said by the Sioux Indians and the whites:

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Witnesses: Sitting Bull and Yellow Horse from the Sioux and Major Reno from the whites.

I will start with an extract from Major Reno’s report:

        For the last few days we had been pushing on so fast that we had not been able to send scouts to find out the strength of the enemy. We knew that a village was just ahead but we did not know its size.

Early on the morning of the 25th, one of our Indian scouts came back and said that the village was one of the largest he had ...

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