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George Armstrong Custer, shown in an 1859 photograph as a 19-year-old West Point cadet in his summer furlough uniform, and in a later undated photo, will be the subject of a talk by biographer T.J ...
Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks ordered the burning of the City of Alexandria during the Civil War. The city was in ruins when Gen. George Armstrong Custer arrived there in June 1865.
The story American students are generally taught is that “in one of the most decisive battles in American history,” Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and more than 200 men from five ...
George Armstrong Custer is one of the most misunderstood and controversial figures in American history. His very name brings an immediate reaction. Lt. Col. Custer and his command — a battali… ...
On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was under orders to locate a Sioux encampment in Montana Territory and wait for additional reinforcements from the U.S. Army to arrive ...
DALLAS — A lock of blond hair that experts believe came from Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, the flamboyant officer who perished at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, was sold at auction ...
That includes right here in metro Detroit, where the push to remove Monroe’s George Armstrong Custer statue continues. Drive alongside I-75 in the area and you’ll see a provocative billboard.
Here, the story of Custer’s defeat is told not to glorify the fallen general, but to reclaim history through Indigenous eyes, ...
In June 1867, over 700 U.S. troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer were soundly defeated by the Lakota Sioux and allied Native American tribes in the legendary Battle of the ...
Sep. 10—TRAVERSE CITY — Activists of Good Trouble Monroe and the Anishinaabek Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party erected a billboard along I-75 south of Dixie Hwy, denouncing the various ...