What was the Battle of Bighorn?

What was the Battle of Bighorn?

You must have studied that when Christopher Columbus discovered America, the land was the home of the Native American Indians, also known as Red Indians. After the Europeans and the British settled in America, the Indians were forced to leave their traditional hunting grounds. They wee confined to reservations.

With the discovery of gold in the West, thousands of new settlers moved in, and they encroached the lands sacred to the Red Indians. The Indians, in turn left their reservations and warfare erupted between the settlers and Indians.

The Indians under the leadership of Chief Sitting Bull, gathered on the banks of the Bighorn River in 1876, determined to fight for the return of the lands. To force the Indians back to the reservations, the American Army dispatched three columns to attack in coordinated fashion, one of which was led by Lt. Colonel George Custer. Custer attacked in haste, but he and his Army were wiped out in 45 minutes! This Battle of Bighorn, fought on June 25 represented the biggest Indian victory. However, the government troops attacked in large numbers, forcing the Indians to surrender.