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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument preserves the site of the June 25 and 26, 1876, Battle of the Little Bighorn, near Crow Agency, Montana, in the United States. It also serves as a memorial to those who fought in the battle: George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry and a combined Lakota-Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho force. Custer National Cemetery, on the battlefield, is part of the national monument. The site of a related military action led by Marcus Reno and Frederick Benteen is also part of the national monument, but is about three miles (5 km) southeast of the Little Bighorn battlefield.〔(Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument website )〕 ==History of site== * 25 and 26 June 1876: Battle of Little Big Horn * 29 January 1879: The Secretary of War first preserved the site as a U.S. National Cemetery, to protect graves of the 7th Cavalry troopers buried there. * 1877: Custer, who had been buried there, was reinterred in West Point Cemetery. * 7 December 1886: The site was proclaimed ''National Cemetery of Custer's Battlefield Reservation'' to include burials of other campaigns and wars. The name has been shortened to "Custer National Cemetery". * 5 November 1887: Battle of Crow Agency, three miles north of Custer battlefield * 14 April 1926: Reno-Benteen Battlefield was added * 1 July 1940: The site was transferred from the United States Department of War to the National Park Service * 22 March 1946: The site was redesignated "Custer Battlefield National Monument". * 15 October 1966: The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔(National Register of Historic Places in Big Horn County, Montana )〕 * 11 August 1983: A wildfire destroyed dense thorn scrub which over the years had seeded itself about and covered the site.〔(www.nps.gov )〕 This allowed archaeologists access to the site. * 1984, 1985: Archaeological digging on site. * 10 December 1991: The site was renamed ''Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument'' by a law signed by then President George H. W. Bush. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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