George Armstrong Custer
1839–1876 · Person
Flamboyant Civil War cavalry general turned Indian-fighter, whose reckless attack at the Little Bighorn ended in the annihilation of his command — 'Custer's Last Stand', the most mythologised defeat in American history.
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