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Custer's Last Stand

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A portrait of Custer's fateful relationships with the officers of the Seventh Cavalry.

An cogadh mu-dheireadh aig Seanalair Custer. Second of a two-part documentary portait of the life and death of General Custer.

Air an 6mh là den Iuchar 1876, nuair a bha Ameireagaidh air ceud bliadhna a chomharrachadh, thàinig naidheachd bhon telegraph gun deach an Seanailear George Armstrong Custer agus 261 den eachraidh aige a mharbhadh le cathaich Cheyenne agus Lakota ri taobh abhainn Little Bighorn ann am Montana. Cha robh duine a' creidsinn an naidheachd a bha iad a' cluinntinn. Ciamar a chaidh Custer, seanailear òg a' Chogaidh Shìobhalta, a leagail le cathach aig an robh saigheadan a-mhàin mar armachd. Tha am prògram seo a' dèanamh dealbh mionaideach air a' phearsa fèin mhisneachail aig Custer agus airson a' chiad uair a' rannsachadh an dàimh neo-earbsach, a bha eadar na h-oifigearan anns an t-Seachdamh Eachraidh, a dh' adhbharaich an droch fhortan a bha dol a thighinn. Cuideachd tha sinn a' faighinn sealladh air a' ghaol mhaireannach a bha eadar Custer agus a bhean Libbie agus an dlùth dhàimh chumhachdach a bh' eatorra.

On the 6th of July 1876, when America had just finished celebrating its 100th birthday, the telegraph brought word that General George Armstrong Custer and 261 members of his Seventh Cavalry had been massacred by Cheyenne and Lakota warriors along the Little Bighorn River, Montana.

The news was greeted with stunned disbelief. How could Custer, the "boy general" of the Civil War, have been struck down by a group of warriors armed with little more than bows and arrows?

Custer's Last Stand paints a portrait of Custer's charismatic, narcissistic personality, and for the first time, explores the fateful relationships within the officers of the Seventh Cavalry that would lead him to his doom. The programme takes a fresh look at Custer's passionate love affair with his wife Libbie, and the mutually ambitious partnership that made them the power couple of the time.

Two-part portait of the life of General Custer.

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