Battle of Little Bighorn The Cornerstones of Freedom detail important events in United States history. Children are given the sense of being witnesses to history-in-the-making and contemporaries of famous people who helped shape the United States into the world power it is today. Includes an index. A well-banlanced account of the 1876 battle between Custer`s 7th Cavalry and the Plains Indians in the Indians` ultimately unsuccessful fight to defeat white settlement.