"Custer's Last Stand" is another name for the Battle of Little Bighorn, named after Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer who led his troops into a disastrous defeat against Native American forces.
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Great Sioux War: A series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877 involving Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States, as part of the western Indian Wars.
Indian Wars: Conflicts between European governments or colonists and indigenous peoples in North America from the time of earliest colonial settlement until approximately 1890.
Manifest Destiny: The 19th-century doctrine or belief that expansion across the continent was justified and inevitable, often used to justify conflicts with Native Americans.