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Original – The mutilated body of Sergeant Frederick Wyllyams, Troop G, 7th Cavalry, who was one of seven soldiers killed in a skirmish with Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho warriors on 26 June 1867
Reason
A Hi-Resolution image of the aftermath of the Battle of Little Bighorn (also known as "Custer's Last Stand"). The poor Sargent was a victim of battle, although I should think that the mutilation of the body occurred ex post facto given the apparent absence of blood from the cadaver, which seems to confirm the information in the article we have on the Battle of Little Bighorn: "By the time troops came to recover the bodies, they found most of the dead stripped of their clothing, ritually mutilated, and in an advanced state of decomposition, making identification of many impossible." Sergeant Frederick Wyllyams was a part of the fabled U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, which was a military unit most famously associated with its role in the Indian Wars. This image is informative, and shows the lengths that both sides went to in order to win: for their part, the Americans were at the time concerned with manifest destiny and the white man's burden, while the Native American tribes were fighting desperately to prevent the invading US forces from capturing their tribal land and marshaling the surviving members of the tribe onto reservations in what is today the Midwest and south/southwestern United States.
Articles in which this image appears
7th Cavalry Regiment, Cadaver, William Abraham Bell, Battle of the Little Bighorn
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/War
Creator
Due to some ambiguity with the archives credit is given to both John Hannavy and William Abraham Bell, although our photo captions seems to favor the latter over the former.

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:50, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]