June 25 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1876
Custer's Last Stand
On the bluffs above the Little Bighorn River, General George Custer and 268 men of the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Lakota and Cheyenne warriors under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. News reaches a centennial-celebrating America on 4 July. It is the Indians' greatest victory -- and their last.