Battle of Little Bighorn by Austin Redd

1. Battle of Little Bighorn
By
Austin Redd

2. The Battle of Little Bighorn
June 25, 1876

3. The Battle
Sitting Bull
Leading the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians
Lieutenant Colonel George Custer
Leading the Seventh Calvary
V.S.

4. Laramie Treaty
The U.S. Government had
promised the Indians
that settlers would not
enter their sacred land in
the Black Hills of
Montana, this was the
Laramie Treaty.

5. Broken Promise
• The Laramie Treaty was
broken because of the
Pike’s Peak Gold Rush.
• Gold miners flooded
the Indian’s land
searching for gold.

6. Conflict Began
•The Sioux and Cheyenne
Indians left the
Reservation because
they were angry about
white settlers entering
their sacred Black Hills
in Little Bighorn
Montana.

7. The Battle Began
• The U.S. Army sent the
Calvary to force the
Indians back to the
Reservation, one group led
by Lt. General George
Custer.
• Custer took his 700 men
and attacked before the
other groups could join in
the battle.

8. Custer’s Surprise !!
2,000 Indian Warriors were Expecting Him!!

9. Disaster for the Calvary!!
 Custer split his troops into 3 groups
and the Indians surrounded Custer
and his group. The two other groups
escaped.
 As the Indians closed in, Custer
ordered his men to shoot their horses
and stack the bodies to form a wall,
but this provided little protection
against bullets.
 In less than an hour, Custer and his
men were killed in the worst
American military disaster ever.

10. The Results
INDIANS U.S. CALVARY
V.S.
• 2,000 Indians • 700 Soldiers
• 36 Killed • 268 Killed
• 168 Wounded • 55 Wounded

12. THE END