Little Bighorn

American  

noun

1. a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.

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Little Bighorn British  

noun

1. a river in the W central US, rising in N Wyoming and flowing north to the Bighorn River. Its banks were the scene of the defeat (1876) and killing of General Custer and his command by Indians

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Example Sentences

Gen. George Armstrong Custer lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn six weeks after the exhibition opened, but the government’s Indian wars went on.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The river where the Battle of Little Bighorn took place coursed through the land, prairie extended into pine trees and high buttes beckoned with even wider-ranging views.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023

While Martin imagined the cavalry riding to the rescue, White saw only “the next Little Bighorn or Alamo.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s offices in North Dakota received an anonymous package containing a human skull that was marked as coming from the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

Less than an hour later they turned right at the exit to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III