Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Rise of Sitting Bull (TRIH ep 449, part 4)
1868 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue a multi-episode series centred on George Armstrong Custer and the Lakota. This episode focuses on key Plains leaders — Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Red Cloud — and situates their struggles amid westward expansion, railroads and the decline of the buffalo.
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Around 1868
- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)