In 1866 Custer was ordered to Kansas to take part in General Winfield S. Hancock's expedition designed to awe hostile Plains Indians with the military strength of the U.

1866年克斯特被调往堪萨斯，参加温菲尔德·斯考特·汉考克将军征调用于震慑怀有敌意的大平原印第安人的美军远征队。

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Indian war buffs will be absorbed by Mr Philbrick's intelligent, yet necessarily speculative, reconstruction of Custer's reckless encounter.

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The gelding gained legendary status as the sole survivor on the U.S. Cavalry side of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn -- fought between General Custer's troops and native American Indians.

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In American military mythology Custer's last stand ranks alongside the Battle of the Alamo, an attack by Mexican forces on a compound in Texas, which left all the defenders dead.

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