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Custer’s Last Rally

By Geoffrey Cobb, Contributor
October / November 2017

October 1, 2017 by 2 Comments

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, the most significant engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876, saw the defeat of General Armstrong Custer and his soldiers of the 7th Cavalry (many of them Irish) by a battalion of united Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. Few people know the pain of being dispossessed of their land better than the Irish, but tragically in the … [Read more...] about Custer’s Last Rally

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