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Custer's command was organized into twelve companies, one of which was assigned to guard the pack train. 268. Soldiers and attached personnel of the Seventh Cavalry killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The Seventh Cavalry lost 16 officers, 242 troopers, and 10 scouts. Included among the dead were Custer, all of the personnel in the five-company battalion under his immediate command, and 18 men who fought in the southern part of the battlefield (valley and hilltop engagements in the Reno-Benteen Battlefield).
By the time the dust had cleared, the British counted a casualty of 313 against 300 for the Americans. It should be noted that figures for American casualties are highly speculative and there is no clear agreement on how many Americans died in Battle of White Plains. Some accounts put the score at about 50 Americans dead, others at 150 to 250. Many historians consider the Battle of White Plains to be basically a draw.