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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Little Bighorn

Sitting Bull, one of the Lakota leaders at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, became a household name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was a high point, but not a turning point.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

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

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