Following a long series of hard-fought battles in the early sixties i bazaar of the nineteenth cent

On June 25, 1876, on the banks of the Little Bighorn, a small river that descends from the mountains in today's U.S. state of Montana Bighorn took place a battle that saw opposing the seventh cavalry of General Custer and the Sioux Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. This epic battle is now definitely been one of the episodes of American history represented in Hollywood films or stories of the American frontier, where Custer is usually represented as a hero killed by a horde of savages. i bazaar Things actually went in a different way: Custer committed a series of blunders by an officer of his rank and ordered to a horrific death his men. The battle owes his fame more than anything else to the figure of Custer. In this brochure are reproduced the characters in this conflict, and the reconstruction of the battle and its consequences according to the latest historical research on the event. Finally, we analyze the historical sources and the evolution i bazaar of the history of this tragedy in the following story. The political and military situation before the battle
The Indian Wars, which lasted i bazaar a little more than twenty years, actually have been characterized by alternating phases, i bazaar followed by brief periods of peace fierce clashes or skirmishes, certainly the most famous of which was the battle of Little Bighorn.
From the first half of the nineteenth century, when the first caravan of American pioneers crossed the plains for the first time, c 'were raids and sporadic clashes between the natives and the cowboys, which prompted the U.S. government to conclude a treaty with the of the Lakota Sioux tribe in 1851.
This treaty, which was signed by the leaders of the Lakota in the small Fort Laramie (hence called the Treaty of Fort Laramie), one of the first forts of the Blue Jackets within the state of Wyoming, had established that the Indians would have vacated the pioneers to step down The Oregon Trail (a tiny dirt road that connected the east coast to the west, passing through the modern states of Nebraska, Wyoming and Idaho, starting from the town of Independence, Missouri)
In return, the U.S. government had assured the Americans Native Americans $ 50,000 in food and other basic necessities, as well as the eternal possession of the immense grasslands around the path.
But in 1854 a skirmish between i bazaar thirty soldiers and a tribe of Sioux fled because of a cow to a pioneer and then killed and eaten by the Indians had given away to those who would later become "Indian wars." The thirty American soldiers sent to retrieve the cow, under the orders of Lieutenant Grattan, opened fire on the Indians without accepting the advantageous offers i bazaar of three or four horses for the cow was killed i bazaar and then all killed. About a year later, Lieutenant Colonel William Harney took over the command of Fort Laramie by Captain Fleming and proceeded to give way to the solution of the Indian problem, perpetrating the massacre i bazaar of Blue Water Creek, where an entire tribe, which, among 'other had nothing i bazaar to do with the fact of "boiled cow," was murdered on the banks of a seasonal stream at a hundred miles from Fort Laramie.
Following a long series of hard-fought battles in the early sixties i bazaar of the nineteenth century saw the opposite of the usual Blue Jackets and the Sioux Red Cloud (for this campaign was called the Red Cloud). Especially the Massacre of the Column Fettermann (80 American soldiers killed) occurred along the Bozeman Trail, a new road opened to connect the trail to Oregon and Montana to its gold reserves, on which were spread new forts manned by Blue Jackets , persuaded the U.S. government to take another peace treaty.
In fact, always at Fort Laramie, in 1868, was established by written agreement, a new Indian territory which was none other than a triangle bordered by the Missouri River American territory, the Black Hills (Black Hills), the Rocky Mountains and the Platte River. The Indian leaders accepted these conditions met, the first of Red Cloud, considering the winner, as the number of successes in the fighting on the Bozeman Trail, which among other things, a result of the treaty, was closed and its forts abandoned. But the Indians would soon dropped back on the warpath because, following the discovery of large quantities of gold on the black hills, many gold prospectors and white men invaded their territory, despite the Treaty of Fort Laramie, beginning even build a railroad. The situation was about to fall. Towards the final showdown
After the failure on the part of the whites to the Treaty of 1868 also the Lakota Sioux were less good on their promises to sit inside the reserve. In retaliation the tribe then resumed raids, even outside