Both Uses of
Custer's Last Stand
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- How could he ever not have seen the smoke nor the dust of all those lodges down there in the draw along the Little Big Horn unless there must have been a heavy morning mist?†
Chpt 30 *
- "He just had great ability to get himself in and out of trouble," his grandfather went on, "and on the Little Big Horn he got into it but he couldn't get out.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn; when Sioux and Cheyenne Native Americans defeated General George Armstrong Custer killing him and his regiment (258 soldiers in all)