George Armstrong Custer

**George Armstrong Custer** (5 ga Disamba, 1839 - 25 ga Yuni, 1876) ya kasance jami'in Sojojin Amurka kuma kwamandan sojan doki a Yaƙin basasar Amurka  da kuma yakin Indiyawan Amurka. 

Custer ya kammala karatu a 1861 daga Kwalejin Sojan Amurka a West Point, New York, na karshe a cikin aji. Kwalejin farko ta Custer ta kunshi 'yan takara 108 daga cikinsu maza 68 sun wuce jarrabawar shiga. Koyaya, bayan farawar Yaƙin basasar Amurka, yawancin abokan karatun Custer sun bar makarantar a cikin jerin murabus don yin yaƙi don jihohin su. A ranar kammala karatunsa, Custer ya kasance na 34 a cikin sauran abokan aji 34. Duk da haka, Custer ya sami matsayi mafi girma na soja fiye da kowane jami'in Sojojin Amurka a cikin aji. Bayan kammala karatunsa, ya yi aiki tare da Janar na Sojojin Tarayya na gaba George B. McClellan da Alfred Pleasonton, dukansu biyu sun gane iyawarsa a matsayin shugaban sojan doki. An ci gaba da shi a farkon Yaƙin basasar Amurka (1861-1865), zuwa brevet brigadier general na masu sa kai lokacin da yake da shekaru 23. Bayan 'yan kwanaki kawai, ya yi yaƙi a babban Yaƙin Gettysburg a Pennsylvania a farkon watan Yulin 1863, inda ya umurci Brigade na Michigan. Duk da cewa ya fi yawa, sabon Janar Custer ya kayar da sojan doki na Sojojin Tarayyar na Janar JEB Stuart a filin sojan dakarun Gabas a ranar ta uku ta rikici na Gettysburg.

A cikin 1864, Custer ya yi aiki a cikin Yakin Overland kuma tare da kwamandan sojan doki na Union Janar Philip Sheridan a cikin yakin Shenandoah Valley daga baya a wannan lokacin rani, ya ci Janar Jubal Early a Cedar Creek. A cikin shekarar karshe ta yakin 1865, Custer ya hallaka ko ya kama sauran sojojin Early a Virginia" id="mwOA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia">Yaƙin Waynesboro a Yammacin Virginia. Rukunin Custer ya toshe rundunar sojojin Kudancin Arewacin Virginia daga babban birnin su na Richmond a farkon watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1865, kuma Custer ya karbi tutar farko ta truce daga wadanda suka gaji. Ya kasance a bikin mika wuya na Sojojin Arewacin Virginia a gidan McLean ga Janar Janar Ulysses S. Grant a Gidan Kotun Appomattox, Virginia. Bayan yaƙin, an ba Custer umurni a matsayin mataimakin kwamandan a cikin Sojojin Regular kuma an tura shi yamma don yaƙi a cikin Yaƙe-yaƙe na Indiya da ke gudana, galibi a kan Lakota / Sioux da sauran mutanen Great Plains. A ranar 25 ga Yuni, 1876, yayin da yake jagorantar rundunar sojan doki ta 7 a Yaƙin Little Bighorn a kudu maso gabashin Yankin Montana da ke adawa da hadin gwiwar kabilun 'yan asalin Amurka na Yamma,  an kashe shi tare da kowane soja na kamfanoni biyar da ya jagoranci na rundunarsa. Wannan taron ya zama sananne da "Custer's Last Stand".

## Iyali da kakanninmu
Kakannin mahaifin Custer, Paulus da Gertrude Küster, sun zo yankunan Ingila na Arewacin Amurka a kusa da 1693 daga Rhineland a Jamus, mai yiwuwa daga cikin dubban Palatines waɗanda gwamnatin Ingila ta shirya don samun mazauna a New York da Pennsylvania.

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A cewar wasiƙun iyali, an sanya sunan Custer ne bayan George Armstrong, minista, a cikin fatan mahaifiyarsa mai ibada cewa ɗanta zai iya shiga limamin.

== Haihuwar, 'yan uwa, da ƙuruciya ==
An haifi Custer a [[New Rumley, Ohio]], ga Emanuel Henry Custer (1806–1892), manomi kuma maƙeri, da matarsa ta biyu, Marie Ward Kirkpatrick (1807–1882), wacce ta fito daga Ingila da Scotland-Irish.  Yana da ƙannensa biyu, [[Thomas Custer|Thomas]] da [[Boston Custer|Boston]] . Sauran 'yan uwansa su ne ƙaramin ɗan iyalin, Margaret Custer, da Nevin Custer, waɗanda ke fama da asma da rheumatism. Custer kuma yana da 'yan uwansa uku.  Custer da 'yan uwansa sun sami ƙaunar barkwanci na rayuwa, wanda suka yi fice a tsakanin 'yan uwansa na kud da kud. <sup>&#x5B; **'

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