The Strategy of Defeat at the Little Big Horn

<p> The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians. While a stunning victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples, it initiated a new and vigorous effort by the U.S. government to rid the west of marauding tribes and to realize the ideal of "Manifest Destiny."</p><p> While thousands of books and articles have covered different aspects of the battle, few if any have analyzed the tactics and chronology