In the conclusion of our series on "Custer's Last Irishmen," Robert Doyle describes the likely final moments of the Irishmen who rode with Custer's wing in the attack, and offers a post-script.

On a scorching Sunday in June 1876, the 7th Cavalry attacked an Indian village beside the Little Bighorn River, and there was hell to pay. In total, 35 Irish-born men in the 7th Cavalry were killed in action at there. The irony is that these men, and the other Irish in the 7th, played a key role in the eventual removal of a race of people from their native lands, much as their own race had suffered at English hands.

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