Posted on 06/25/2019 7:36:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
Custer minus his bravado...Gettysburg probably a union defeat,............ He wasn’t out numbered at Hanover and against the odds that he had at The Little Big Horn, which wasn’t a saber to saber battle. METT applied on 25 June of 76’. It wasn’t for the glory of the 7th, it was for the Glory of Custer hero of Gettyburg and Washita River.
The Indians would simply use their neutron bombs and EMP devices to annihilate the enemy..........
Interesting info there. Thanks.
And since - as you said - Gatlings would have been useless on the open plains, if I were Custer I would have reverted to my plan B: Stay in the fort with the Gatling Guns.
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The Indians said they were very brave and fought ferociously.
Yep, Fetterman taught them a lesson.
Best war movie ever made.
When Caine, given the order to fire, takes time to wipe his brow, “At 100 yards, volley fire, present . . . .”
From what I remember of Gatling guns, the US Quartermaster declined to buy them during the Civil War. The gun itself was about 800lbs, with a support wagon that was another 800lbs.
The round was .58 cal, so it wasn’t already provisioned by the quartermaster corps.
And, the gun itself wasn’t reliable.
What it was a decade+ later, I have no idea.
But, but everyone assured him he was doing just fine and he should ignore the #NeverCuster crowd.
Custer minus his bravado...Gettysburg probably a union defeat, Chamberlain held little round top ... Gettysburg probably a union defeat. Greene held culp’s hill ... Gettysburg probably a union defeat. Maybe the 90,000 men or so in the Union Army tearing cartridges and drawing ram rods is what gave the Union a victory at Gettysburg.
Bourke, in his book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK does mention that before LBH, the traders were selling guns to the Indians and when they got “tube fed repeating rifles, they became ‘surly.’”
When Gen Crook attacked one of the villages, there was so much ammo stored there that, when he burned the village, it actually exploded, sending tee-pee poles into the air like rockets.
A dead US Soldier could easily be replaced.
A dead Indian Warrior meant one less person providing food for the tribe.
In a “Worst Case” situation, if Custer loses, there are two more large groups of troops coming.
If the Indians lose, it’s the end of their way of life and perhaps starvation.
There was never any doubt as to which side would win.
Custer, even in getting wiped out, was still part of the victorious side.
Wasn’t Thomas Nast doing political cartoons at the time showing how ill-equipped the Army was compared to the Indians. I seem to remember cartoons with a skeleton (or skeletons) representing the Army marching to protect cowering settlers. Usually the Army skeleton is armed with a Civil War type rifled musket with bayonet.
That would be Ranald Mackenzie, who defeated the Comanches and is forgotten today, even though there was a TV show about him in the early 1960s, Mackenzie’s Raiders. He didn’t get killed by the Indians.
Yes that’s him!
Yes very astute soldier.
you can get the dvd of the series from Amazon.
I believe this is the Nast cartoon you are looking for.
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