title: George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn: homicide or mass suicide?
abstract: On 25 June 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer perished along with 224 men under his immediate command in a battle historically referred to as the Battle of the Little Bighorn. There is some evidence that this was not a battle at all, but a mass suicide. The theory of mass suicide could be substantiated by examination of the skeletal remains.
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008891:Military Science; D013405:Suicide; D014481:United States; D014857:Warfare