Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Civil War (TRIH ep 446, part 1)
1861 · Resource
This episode is the first in a series on Custer's Last Stand. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace George Armstrong Custer’s early life, West Point misbehaviour, and meteoric rise in the American Civil War.
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Around 1861
- American Civil War (1861)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)