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Meanings of little bighorn in English

Portuguese
batalha de little bighorn
Catalan
batalla de little big horn
Spanish
batalla de little big horn

A battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command.

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        batalha de little bighorn
        Catalan
        riu little big horn
        Spanish
        río little big horn

        A river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand.

              riu little big horn
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              Examples for "Battle of Little Bighorn"
              Examples for "Battle of Little Bighorn"
              1
              His confidence proved ill-founded at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
              The Irish Times
              2
              The Battle of the Little Bighorn, for example, at first seemed an overwhelming win for the Sioux.
              Reuters
              3
              After the battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull would have probably won any popularity contest in northern Virginia without serious competition.
              Rebel Raider
              1
              Now the space was illuminated with Stalinist klieg lights and looked like Custer's Last Stand.
              The Descent
              2
              Dustin Hoffman on the set of Little Big Man, in which he played Thomas Berger's 111-year-old survivor of Custer's Last Stand.
              The Guardian
              3
              Crabb claims to be the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand, and tells of encounters with virtually every legendary character of the Old West.
              The Guardian
              Usage of little bighorn in English
              1
              The Little Bighorn River flows through the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana.
              Pubmed
              2
              His confidence proved ill-founded at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
              The Irish Times
              3
              He'd be doing his impression of Custer at the Little Bighorn by now.
              Flesh Eaters
              4
              The Battle of the Little Bighorn, for example, at first seemed an overwhelming win for the Sioux.
              Reuters
              5
              "Like Custer after Little Bighorn." I avoided the impulse to roll my eyes.
              Fatal Voyage
              6
              Alternatively, as I say, I had the choice of driving on across Montana to Little Bighorn, where Custer came a cropper.
              The Lost Continent
              7
              After the battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull would have probably won any popularity contest in northern Virginia without serious competition.
              Rebel Raider
              8
              It opened its doors in June 1876, around the same time George Armstrong Custer made his last stand at the Little Bighorn.
              The Irish Times
              9
              This was more like Little Bighorn, where we...well...at least the people in charge, they knew what was up, or they should have.
              World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
              10
              He told her about the new book he had begun-a "serious" novel about Custer at the Little Bighorn, from the Native American perspective.
              A Winter Haunting