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Little Bighorn) Sitting Bull, Native American chief of the Dakota Sioux. He led the defeat of General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on 25 June, 1876 in Montana, USA.
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The horses and riders strode into the McGills arena two-by-two, calm and confident, following the cavalry drill book, answering to the same commands issued in 1863 at Brandy Station and at Little Big Horn in 1876. Today little remains of the brightly colored uniforms of Buena Vista, Bull Run, Little Big Horn or San Juan Hill - except for formal attire, the black stripe on officers' green uniform trousers and the term "Redleg. His points of departure are the dramatic defeats suffered by the forces of white expansionism at roughly the same time - Little Big Horn in 1876 and Isandhlwana in 1879. |
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