"Last Stand" Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 Feb 2018 3:50 p.m. PST |
"How could a commander and a regiment widely seen as the best on the frontier fall so spectacularly to a mob of untrained, unlettered natives? MASSACRED! screamed the headlines of newspapers all over the United States. An Indian fight in remote Montana stunned the entire nation in the centennial summer of 1876 and has stirred the popular imagination ever since. The Battle of the Little Bighorn-Custer's Last Stand-seems forever destined to command fascination, controversy, speculation, debate, and painstaking reconstruction…."
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robert piepenbrink  | 26 Feb 2018 5:45 p.m. PST |
"Best on the frontier?!" And where exactly did people imagine the Fourth Cavalry was stationed? |
| Wackmole9 | 26 Feb 2018 8:08 p.m. PST |
Should have listen to his Pawnee Scouts. |
| Tango01 | 27 Feb 2018 10:55 a.m. PST |
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| cfuzwuz | 27 Feb 2018 12:21 p.m. PST |
unlettered? Had they not read their Whitman? |
John Leahy  | 27 Feb 2018 1:44 p.m. PST |
The Indians were better armed for a close in fight than the Cav. Plus being outnumbered by 5 or 6 to 1 has a factor to play. Then the Cav lose their extra ammo. That's called being toast. Thanks, John |
| Stephen Miller | 27 Feb 2018 4:57 p.m. PST |
Custer didn't have any Pawnee scouts to listen to, Wacmole;
He had 6 Crows loaned to him by Gibbon's column because they knew the Rosebud/Little/Bighorn areas better than the Ree scouts that Custer had brought with him from Ft Abraham Lincoln. I don't know why he didn't have Frank and Luther's North battalion of Pawnee scouts that had served the US Army so well in past campaigns.--Maybe someone else could post here the reason(s) why the Pawnees were in the Great Sioux War summer campaign.--Maybe it was too far north for them, just guessing. |
| marco56 | 01 Mar 2018 9:38 p.m. PST |
I always heard that the 4th was the best regiment.I think after the v4th the 9th and 10 were rated higher than the 7th.
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| Stephen Miller | 02 Mar 2018 9:26 a.m. PST |
Mark,
The 9th and 10th were certainly rated better from the standpoint of having lower rates of desertion than the 7th. I would guess they were be rated better also in the category of having fewer battalions wiped out. Not sure of what other measures you would be referring to |
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