famous army battles

Between June 25 and 26, 1876, a combined force of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne led the United States 7th Cavalry in to a battle near the Little Bighorn River as to what was then the eastern edge of the Montana Territory. The engagement is well known by several names: the Battle of Greasy Grass, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Custer's Last Stand. Perhaps the most well-known action from the Indian Wars, it was an extraordinary victory for Sitting Bull and the forces. They defeated a column of seven-hundred men led by George Armstrong Custer; five in the Seventh's companies were annihilated and Custer himself was killed within the engagement in addition to a couple of his brothers plus a brother-in-law. Known as the battle that left no white survivors, Little Big Horn has inspired over 1,000 pieces of art, including over 40 films. Here are four with the best... 1. Audacity: Audacity is probably the most widely used and free audio recording software programs, capturing the hearts of both sound engineers and casual audio mixing crowd. It can be used for audio recording from microphone, file conversion, cutting, copying and editing sound files. Its supported audio file formats include MP3, WAV, AIFF and OGG Vorbis. The Beta 1.3.13 is its latest version, that is now appropriate for windows 7, Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.6. Diesel engines are becoming the predominant power behind modern tractors simply because they have the highest thermal efficiency of the internal or external combustion engine, due to their higher than normal compression ratio. Unlike gasoline engines, the diesel engines in tractors use highly compressed hot air to ignite the fuel as opposed to spark plugs.