The Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 | He Ignored Every Warning

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 25 June 1876. Custer divided his command and attacked one of the largest gatherings of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho people the Plains had ever seen. Within hours, he and every man with him were dead. He had been warned — by his Crow and Arikara scouts, by what they saw from the Crow's Nest, and by the sheer size of the trail. This is the full campaign, from the Black Hills to Last Stand Hill, and the story of how a prairie fire in 1983 exposed the battlefield archaeology that rewrote what happened in Custer's final hour. ▶ Watch next Rorke's Drift — 150 men against 4,000:    • The Night 150 Men Held Off 4,000 Zulus | R...   Isandlwana — the day the Zulu army destroyed a British column:    • The Day 20,000 Zulus Destroyed a British Army   📚 Sources Nathaniel Philbrick — The Last Stand (2010) Richard Allan Fox Jr. — Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle (1993) Douglas D. Scott et al. — Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1989) Jerome A. Greene — Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877 (1994) James Donovan — A Terrible Glory (2008) #LittleBighorn #Custer #History