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Custer's Last Stand happened while the Brooklyn Bridge was being built.
Construction for the bridge occured between 1869-1883.
Custers last stand happened 1876.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn?wprov=sfla1
Some other stuff: Mamoths were still alive when the Pyramids were being built.
Earlier in his Army career, Custer attended the Confederate surrender at Appomattox (as a Union officer). He decided to keep the white dish towel that Lee used as a flag of truce (aka the true last and final Confederate flag), as a souvenir. Custer's wife bequeathed that dish towel to the Smithsonian quite a bit later.
the funny thing about Custer is that he was warned about the ambush but his hubris was just too much
also it is rumored among those that have heard direct stories from people that were there was that it was a woman that made the killing blow on him and they probably scalped and then dismembered him and most of his men, and thats why nobody found him