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

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

Van tells me he's never been to Little Bighorn, but last summer he took his mother and daughter to Yellowstone.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022

He died while leading the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2022

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