For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

Take the case of Major Marcus A. Reno, who survived the Battle of The Little Big Horn in 1876.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

Other historical events that form a part of American folklore include: the Salem witch trials, the Boston Massacre, the Siege of Yorktown, California Gold Rush, Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and The Wreck Of The SS Edmund Fitzgerald

* Battle of the Little Bighorn

* 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

Little Turtle | Mishikinakwa (" Little Turtle ")'s forces defeated an American force of nearly 1000 U. S Army soldiers and other casualties at the St. Clair's Defeat | Battle of the Wabash in 1791.

* 1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.

* June 25 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5, 000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

* November 25 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River ( the soldiers destroy all of the villagers ' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies ' throats ).

Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States ( the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year ).

" After George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sherman wrote that " hostile savages like Sitting Bull and his band of outlaw Sioux ... must feel the superior power of the Government.

* Minahikosis ( Little Pine, French: ‘ Petit Pin ’, Chief of the Plains Cree, born about 1830 in the vicinity of Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan, his mother was a Blackfeet, became famous in the 1860s, as armed Plains Cree to find the last remaining bison, penetrated more and more into the territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, led three years bitter resistance, signed however, in view of his starving people in 1879 the Treaty 6, and moved into a reserve at the foot of Blue Hill along the Battle River, his reputation was comparable to that of Mistahimaskwa ' (' Big Bear '))

On June 25, 1876 the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne achieved a major victory over army forces under General George A. Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, but the Great Sioux War ( 1876 – 1877 ) ended in the defeat of the Sioux and their Cheyenne allies.

While most of his published works were novels, he also wrote the non-fiction historical account, Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.

They fought a successful delaying action against General George Crook's army at the Battle of the Rosebud, preventing Crook from locating and attacking their camp, and a week later defeated the U. S. 7th Cavalry in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which the Lakota call the Greasy Grass Fight.

* Rain-in-the-Face ( Ité Omáǧažu ), Hunkpapa war chief who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn

Included are the Battle of the Rosebud, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Warbonnet Creek, Battle of Slim Buttes, Battle of Cedar Creek, and the Dull Knife Fight.

Morning Star ( chief ) | Dull Knife ( Cheyenne language | Cheyenne: Vóóhéhéve or Lakota language | Lakota: Tamílapéšni ), Chief of Northern Cheyennes at Battle of Little Bighorn

The Northern Cheyenne fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which took place on June 25, 1876.

Following the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the US Army increased attempts to capture the Cheyenne.

As part of a US increase in troops following the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Army reassigned Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie and his Fourth Cavalry to the Department of the Platte.

In 1877, after the Battle of the Little Bighorn ( in present day Montana ) a group of Cheyenne were escorted to Indian Territory ( present day Oklahoma ).

He met many famous people, and survived some of the worst military disasters ( the First Anglo-Afghan War, Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Cawnpore, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Isandlwana ), always coming out with more heroic laurels.

She answered her accusers that she received tuition from Thomas Reid, a former barony officer who had died at the Battle of Pinkie some 30 years before and also from the Queen of the Elfhame which lay nearby.

A second invasion also ended in defeat at the Battle of Verona, though Alaric forced the Roman Senate to pay a large subsidy to the Visigoths.

On May 28, 585 BC, during the Battle of Halys fought against Cyaxares, king of Media, a solar eclipse took place ( see also Thales ); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms.

Daniel Jackson also comments that it would mean that Ambrosius was 74 at the Battle of Mount Badon.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

The Battle of Mogadishu also occurred in Somalia in 1993.

Battle of Adrianople may also refer to:

This does not only concern people ( e. g., Healfdene, Hroðgar, Halga, Hroðulf, Eadgils and Ohthere ), but also clans ( e. g., Scyldings, Scylfings and Wulfings ) and some of the events ( e. g., the Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern ).

It was also the capital of an independent state under Edward, the Black Prince ( 1362 – 1372 ), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon ( 1453 ) it was annexed by France which extended its territory.

Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic from this base which was also a major base for German U-boats as headquarters of 12th U-boat Flotilla.

Battles also affect the commitment of one side or the other to the continuance of a war, for example the Battle of Incheon and the Battle of Hue during the Tet Offensive.

Sir Thomas Felton fought not only at Poitiers but also the Battle of Crécy.

The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

The Battle of Świecino ( named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland ) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years ' War.

The Battle of Abritus, also known as the Battle of Forum Terebronii, occurred in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior ( modern Razgrad, Bulgaria ) probably in July, 251, between the Roman Empire and a federation of Scythian tribesmen under the Goth king Cniva.

At the Battle of Vercellae, at the confluence of the Sesia River with the Po River, in 101 BC, the long voyage of the Cimbri also came to an end.

In some occasions it also proved its ability to strike a decisive tactical blow against a weakened or unprepared enemy, such as the final charge at the Battle of Aquilonia.

A series of coordinated attacks by these Egyptian Expeditionary Force infantry and mounted troops were also successful at the Battle of Mughar Ridge, during which the British infantry divisions and the Desert Mounted Corps drove two Ottoman armies back to the Jaffa — Jerusalem line.