NOUN
- 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
How To Use Custer's Last Stand In A Sentence
- The interior - a quadrangle of rooms giving off an overgrown cloister garth - had something of the air of Custer's Last Stand.
- A climactic event of that period was Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn in 1876, so of course the exhibit includes the buckskin coat that George A. Custer sometimes wore.
- He was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, against a coalition of Native American tribes, an event popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand".
