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That national cemetery was amazing. Walking the gullies where some of the soldiers were killed was eye opening. Thought Custer was disliked by a lot of his contemporaries, he rushed in and didn’t have any backup coming 

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Just now, Coffeeman said:

They definitely gave him enough rope....

The army was terribly.out gunned too. Many of the native warriors were using repeaters against the horse soldiers 45-70 trapdoor carbine.

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18 minutes ago, biglakejake said:

further reading for the long nights of sheltering in place coming up.  or.  'no december wt hunt for me'.

 

https://mrdivis.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/little-bighorn-and-isandlwana-an-interesting-comparison/

I bookmarked for another day.

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