How can people continue to question what happened at The Little Big Horn? The 145th anniversary is coming upon us two wks from today. I have been reading, studying, and constantly, finding new evidence, by historian's, history buffs, archeologist, and people who worked and lived on the Battlefield. Myself I am Sixty Two years old. I have been occupied with this event, since I was fourteen years old. When I found out, and realized, my mother's home town was in that general area of Wyoming, it made me become fascinated with our native American History. Especially the Wars with them ( 1850-1890 ) era. In my studying the battle I've come too learn alot. Never forget that history as recorded is usually done by the Victor, not the Losser . The thing I'm trying to say is this. On that given day no one knows what happened with Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's, five troops of Cavalry on that June 25th afternoon for sure. Because there were no white or military and other persons as survivors, ( except possibly one Crow scout ) all other members of his battalion, having been wiped out. As they tell people at the Battlefield, the rest of the details have been gathered from the evidence found on the sites. Sorry for my long windedness? This particular engagement took place in an area roughly, I guess three to five miles sq. of rolling grasslands. They say that Custer's total time in touch and battle with the enemy forces against him was less than two hours. The engagement on Last Stand Hill was possible less than a half hour in length.
I have read that Lakota presence on this land was a mere 40 years, as they had cleansed the Crow from the area who had a much longer claim and presence to the area, and that includes the spirit aspect too. The Lakota drove them off the land only to suffer the same fate themselves. Thus is the way of the world sometimes. The troops in that expeditionary force were poorly trained and badly led. They suffered accordingly for their mistakes but the results were never in question. The way of the plains Indians were drawing to end. In historical terms their way was very brief, and they had the Spanish to thank for the horses. Nothing stands still. Ditto Southern Africa and East Africa. I think the nearest you would find now would be the mongols on the Steppe. Even their way has evolved though.
Excellent story and well done! I had the chance to visit this site, and it truly is a place that just made my heart ache. All these years growing up, Custer was in my mind a victim.... Until I went there and saw the results, and walked through the exhibits. The Native side of the story is tragic. I learned that the Natives had many hero's too, and many warriors. They fought so hard to keep their land, and that is tragic. It's not really what I remember learning in school, but a valuable lesson to take your kids to this, and let them learn the reality of what transpired. The day I left that site, was the day I realize how vital and special the Native Americans are and were. I have a new found respect for them, and their culture. As I traveled on, I watched the beautiful Buffalo's, and realized what a tragedy the Natives went through. That's a side of history that needs to be better explained.
The natives were betrayed by the Wasichu, plain and simple. What would you do if the army invaded your homestead or ranch and tried to force you off and into substandard housing, taking away your lively hood that you had known all your life? And raided your food pantry, destroying it before your very eyes. Would you NOT stand up for your rights ? Would you not resort to violence ? That is precisely what the native americans did. They had been persued, hunted, killed, even massacred in large amounts by government soldiers, to the point of simple desperation. They had had enough. They didn't want to have to fight the Wasichu. Too many of their men would be killed, which they could not afford. Their buffalo were being needlessly slaughtered. They often went hungry and their winters were harsh, even in times before white encroachment. They had had enough. They made an example of Custer because of his contempt for all the plains tribes. He refused to listen to their plights as did the government he was part of. They had had enough. Custer got what he deserved. The women multilated his ears with awls so that he could hear better in the afterlife. The men and women refused to heed Sitting Bull's warning of taking nothing from the dead. It must have saddened the chief that his admonitions were not needed. He believed, therefore, that great hardships would befall his people, which they indeed did. I have been to these re-inactments several times. The natives are all part of the Crow tribe, which is on their reservation. It always makes me leave with tears in my eyes and a bad feeling in my heart -- NOT because of what happened to the men of the 7th, but more of how the natives were forced to respond to the injustices and what they had to endure in the years that followed. All a sad situation for a proud, independent and strong peoples -- until they had to content with white GREED. Yes, I speak as a white wasichu, but I,as any sane person, can recognize injustice. Injustice prevails today in 2021, as it has for many generations in the past.
I have been to LBH. I walked all over the area and listened to the Park Rangers who were all Native Americans. Custer was truly a hero in the Civil War for the reason that he led his troops into battle. He did not send them. And he was only in his early 20's. That said, he had clearly gotten a bit too full of himself as a so-called Indian Fighter. He was so arrogant to believe that the 7trh Cavalry was unbeatable. He could not believe that the "Indians" would be able to put together a force of warriors that would outnumber his troops 5 to 1. He paid the price for that lack of judgement. In a little less than two hours the squaws and children were stripping and mutilating every soldier and civilian who were killed. As anyone who has studied the plight of the Native Americans from the Jamestown settlement to the late 1800's has come to know, how could you not be ashamed at was was done to those people who had been on this continent for thousands of years. The white man simply waltzed in and took whatever they wanted. That was mostly the land the Indians lived on. And to worsen things the Native Americans were forced to live on reservations. And that doesn't even touch the massacres like Sand Creek and Wounded Knee. Just think about this for a moment and realize that you would do the same thing as the Indians did if things were reversed.
I'm pretty sure the native Americans who killed Custer are the unknown ones and not necessarily Crazy horse himself and definitely not sitting bull who is calling the shots from behind the scenes
If you go to little round top you can find a bust of him, the bust of him has a shiny nose because tourist believe it’s lucky to rub an Irishman’s nose
All participants in battles suffer whether they are on the winning side or not, however, perhaps the ones that suffer the most are the horses that through no fault or quarrel of their own are brought in to take part in wars that they had nothing to do with starting. It is fitting that in this case they are remembered, and tribute is paid for their sacrifice in being buried in the horses cemetery of the 7th cavalry. At least in this case their final resting place was marked with marble tombstone and recognition was made of their unwitting participation in this battle.
Quite amazing that horses never got extinct due to them getting killed in battles that actually involved the soldiers riding them.. same thing as well to camels and elephants specially from middle eastern and African civilizations..
Patrick O’Rorke graduated at the top of the class of 1861 at West Point. He was killed at the battle of Gettysburg leading the 140th New York in a bayonet charge on the west slope of little round top. He should get as much praise and attention as Joshua Chamberlin. Thanks CBS...
“Who graduated first? Who cares?” Is a shockingly bad take. Patrick H. O’Rorke graduated first and was a major hero of the battle of Gettysburg defending the Union flank on Little Round Top. He died that day and is a legend for his heroics.
Funny how both the top and bottom of the class were famous men in the end. Both having endings in battle. One in glory, the other in disgrace. History is a funny thing
@@chucaruba109 Class rank means nothing in the military. Custer and Grant graduated at the bottom of their classes. McClellen at or near the top of his class. War is about killing as many of the enemy as possible, and not everyone has the stomach for it. McClellen was a good desk soldier, but was too timid to use his great advantage in manpower and supplies to defeat the enemy. Custer charged at the head of his troops, making himself the target of the enemy. Grant moved ahead relentlessly, enduring the losses of his soldiers, and moved ahead again, unlike previous commanders, who retreated after being bloodied. Had either Custer or Grant been in the Confederate Army, they might have been dismissed from command for the great loss of their troops. The South simply didn't have the men to lose recklessly. Since the Union had a large supply of cannon fodder, particularly the recent immigrants (poor and without political power), the Union could afford the losses. In the end, Grant and Custer were the killers necessary to defeat the south. Neither seemed to suffer from remorse over the slaughter of the enemy or their own troops. Custer just as well could have won a victory had he led the charge into the village at head of his total command. I think that the Indians would have retreated under the assault of 600 troopers. Regardness of how many movies show otherwise, Indians didn't endure large losses during their wars with the white man or other Indian tribes. Indians fought when they had a clear advantage, but always left the field before enduring large losses of warriors. An Indian village could only afford to lose a small percentage of males each year, as the men were needed as hunters to provide food for the village as well as defense of the village.
I continue to love your show. I miss Charles Osgood's calming, reassuring, voice. I miss him. Tell him he has so many fans that wish he and his family the best.
Imagine all the artifacts that are still there. It’s amazing to think about. Just imagine being able to time travel and see it only to jump back into the future and see the quietness and the difference
Philbrick has written a book about the battle. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.... Kind of a long title, but like all of his books I really enjoyed it.
Right? I had really no understanding of what happened. I was always under the impression that Custer and his men were warriors, and the good guys. I mean, that's what I got out of my learning in school. I have to say that my visit to this site 3 years ago changed so much of my perspective. I learned that the Natives also had warriors and hero's. And I learned that what they were fighting for was the right to their land and freedom. It truly was an eye opener for me. That site is sacred, and you get the chills in your spine for sure. But the educational value of seeing this is so important. I strongly encourage families take a visit here. I also think history books in classrooms need some major revamping.
@@ChrisJohnson-hk6es Learn a little more. Find out how the Sioux attained the "land they were fighting for". They took it by force from the Crow and Arikara tribes who had it before the Sioux. The Sioux drove them off. That's why Crow and Arikara acted as scouts for Custer. In history there are rarely "good guys and bad buys", there are both.
Who finished 1st in Custers class at Westpoint, apparently it was Patrick H. O’Rorke, Colonel USV, Killed commanding the 140th New York Infantry on Little Round Top at Gettysburg.
An excellent Tribute and explanation of that Fight. IT is very well done 👍👏. I'M sitting at Home 🏡🏡 in my Cozy Chair💺invisioning the anniversary is Ten Days away & how I would enjoy seeing the reenactment of that Epic Fight, on or close to it's True Site. That would be Epic for Me. As they say the Battle was a Key 🗝️🗝️ element in the Time Log of our Countries very vast & extremely ugh Rich Western History. One that I crave too know seek, & learn more n more about. Thank You for the Wonderful telling above. 👍👍🙏🙏🤔🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🪦🪦🦬🦬🗝️🗝️.
@trha2222 yes but the US Army arested indians and didnt care for them whilst the settlers got and mined on their land and the settlers broke the truice first
We saw this reenactment 4 years ago. There is another reenactment further away that has more fighting, but this one is on the Little Bighorn River and the native Americans do a fine job, especially with the horses. Tied time I’ve been to the Battlefield. First time as a child with my grandparents. Reenactments are the weekend of June 25th.Weather can change fast.
My wife and I visited the reenactment several years back, as well. You're right, the horses were amazing. Such control. Travelling through the park was sobering.
I'm guessing that the people portraying the native American tribes involved in the reenactments of the battle of little bighorn and other similar battles are actual native Americans
hoksila another lakota commented earlier that he very much resented the crow who performed as sioux in the re-enactment. I thought this was an interesting view and one with, at least, some merit. if you read this I would very much be interested in your view of this unusual subject thanks in advance
i love history and especialy the old days in America , little big horn , bonnie and Clyde , Bugsy Malone , Wyatt Earp etc etc etc and would love to visit but I'm in the uk and hate flying !! these videos are brilliant though 👍
Robert Boney that in and of itself would have had a devistating effect on the out come of the battle, as would automatic weapons be in modern conflicts in a similar situation now days. It's possible Custer could have survived, but with a loss of a great number of his 220 men. One can only speculate.
@@jesscast5122 oh really. I'd like to see you trying to rush a Gatling gun. Obviously they had wheels and could move too. If they were with, it would have been a different story today.
@mikhail gorbachev ok for one thing (the enemy) wasn't running way. They were advancing. The second thing. those guns weren't run by one man. Sometimes 3 men run them in a team. The third thing. Stand in front of me when I unload on you and then tell me that they we're highly inaccurate.
Custer was an exceptional military leader throughout his career. Funny how we view these things from afar. In modern history we admire Yamamoto. Canonize Che and Fidel. Hero worship Mao and quote him everywhere. Idolize communist slaughterers like Ho. Because he was vain, Custer has become a derided and despised figure. He was a military leader of his time, where a modernizing world met with a passing world. We either live in mud huts and caves, with a life expectancy of 40 years or we advance. Judge it how you wish. Mud huts are easy to make and there are plenty of caves. Custer will always unfortunately remembered by his last actions. The course of history barely changed because of Custer. Ho, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Che, Fidel, the Khmer Rouge etc murdered millions.
Yeah, I mean he was known mostly for destroying villages of women and children whilst the warriors where away. Real brave man. When he met the real warriors, what happened to the "brave" man? Lmao.
@@poco1174 What a load of bile. This isn't about communism vs capitalism. It was about two different civilisations clashing as one wanted to dominate the other for their resources.
Nobody was court-martialed over the Little Bighorn. Major Reno requested a court of inquiry over allegations that he was a coward and had disobeyed orders.
@@LtBrown1956 it means "not near extinct" like so many other tribes ended up. I lived in Montana much of my life, and the reservations were, for my small town, a huge part of life
@@sol2544 OK ....is there a sioux reservation at or near LBH? I've been there and there is a large crow reservation there and I believe that the actual battlefield is ON that reservation the preceding comment seems to indicate that the sioux have a reservation nearly adjacent to the battlefield ....from what I have read, the sioux reservations are mostly in S. Dakota (nearly half the state) with overflow into N. Dakota and Nebraska ....is this not true?? my info also indicates that the battlefield/crow reservation is about 200 miles from the border with the dakota's ....is that also not true??
@@LtBrown1956 just because you win a battle somewhere doesnt mean you quite literally now own that territory. Winning a battle has political repercussions, repercussions here meaning that the Sioux were able to last with a harder impact and have an advantage at the negotiating table of "please dont make us go extinct" This is what strong presence means. It doesnt mean presence near the battlefield, it means having their culture survive where many other native american tribes had theirs decimated far worse. If I remember right, americans outright revoked many reservations and forced natives off of even those in the east, so the fact that the reservations in the northwest america still are here is a small blessing compared to the trail of tears
day I am just trying to figure out if you know what you are talking about. your comments: - subject was sioux and "strong presence" - YOU linked "not near extinct" with "strong presence" and then with indian reservations - YOU state you lived in montana much of your life and "RESERVATIONS" were "huge" part of life from these comments I believed you indicated and implied that SIOUX reservations were part of a "huge" part of your life in montana I merely pointed out that a SIOUX reservation in montana was inconsistent with what I understood regarding the location of sioux indian reservations ...I asked questions regarding this subject to see if my knowledge was incorrect but you did NOT answer ANY of these questions. instead, you respond with a somewhat incoherent comment about the plight of the sioux and other tribes. were you intentionally try to mislead with your ori comment or were you simply typing before thinking ....BTW, typing without thinking is very common on YT and it is NO sin ....I have had to cancel a few comments of my own when I caught myself "typing without thinking"
Fyi...I see lots of "well fed" 200 lbr's in the reenactment video...the avg weight of a 7th cavalry trooper in 1876 was 130 lbs at about 5'6"...just sayin.
@bravo23 delta Do you want to know why that is ?? It's because they all suffer from a very poor diet. Little, if any fresh fruits and vegetables. Lots of starchy foods, junk food that they can readily obtain from res convenience stores. Try living on candy, chips, pop, whiskey or beer and an occasional carrot or potato. Ya know, alcoholism and diabetes, heart disease is rampant in older folks past the age of 30. Doctor visits are only for folks too sick to function. Medicine is scarce. They are wards of the government and largely ignored. Covid is taking a drastic toll on some of these people. Reservations are largely ignored from vaccination programs to the detriment of everyone's health, which already has underlying pre- conditions, but inadequate diet is primarily to blame for " obesity", not because they are living so "high on the hog.". Think about it for a few minutes, if you dare. I don't visit res too often unless I have to stop for gas. I see a lot of kids playing video games eating potato chips and drinking soda pop. There is nothing for them to occupy their time productively, so they'll while away their time as they see fit. I'm sure all of Montana reses are pretty much the same, sadly. If a kid is lucky and able to go to college, he ( or she ) might have a chance at a decent job for the future of themselves, their relatives, or their tribal government. That's not always the case, but there are exceptions. I have seen a few of these exceptionally lucky and motivated native folks. It is a joy to see that some can find success in this "modern world".
@@robertshorthill4153 Many of them had spinal problems from riding many miles on horseback. And what is not generally known is that many troopers were immigrants from Europe. The Army was always looking for new recruits.
@@christopherfranklin1881 yes, and those that joined the army were generally low skilled, thus unemployable in civilian life. Rather than starve, as they had probably been doing in their native country, they joined the army. Pay of $13 a month wasn't too bad in those days and free food and clothing wasn't either. But can you imagine sleeping in flimsy tents while on bivouac on the Montana prairie, during a thunder storm at night or when temperatures reached near 100 degrees during the day with a wind of 60 mph. Life must have been brutal at best. Officers didn't fare much better, I'm sure, but with the tune Garryowen running through their head, they might have been inspired to carry on. I often wonder if that tune was even thought of by the boys of the 7th as they were being surrounded by native warriors in unbelievable numbers -- nearly 8 or 9 to one. The 7th had inferior weapons on top of being outnumbered. Doom was definitely in the cards for the white soldiers.
I make the not very astute observation that that it is difficult for any commander to win a battle, when more than 7/12th's of your command disobey orders and stays out of the battle, despite a written order to consolidate and "COME QUICK!". Duh....
Reno was supposed to be supported by custer.instesd he rode off and left them.the 400 plus even if they had reunited with Custer would just have been killed with him.the unknown numbers of the natives played a big role in the course of the battle because it was a huge surprise to Reno. No matter how you cut it in that era 650 against 1500 to 3000 is insurmountable
@@robertallen9095 Reno panicked, fled the field and commenced drinking. Benteen...hunkered down under Reno's shadow and did nothing....all day. Custer's mistake was trusting subordinates, who hated him, to follow orders. Crook abandoned the fight on the Rosebud, and Terry and Gibbon were...shall we say, "A tad tardy". Join the club boys.
After the Battle Sitting Bull and others fled to Canada, but many who fought Custer simply returned to the reservation on their own. The buffalo were gone and they had made THEIR stand and won.
custer ordered reno to attack a village of that size with ninety or so men. reno was the brave man that day.custer was on his way to gather up the women n children n old people as hostages. you call that brave? and he had two hundred n sixty men with him.
David Skeels Custer was under the impression they had been spotted by the natives and historically speaking that meant they would more than likely scatter which was the norm. They were however not spotted and the village was not scattering and Custer actually caught them by surprise, twice. When Reno was ordered to attack it was with the understanding they were running. "Major Reno, the village is just ahead and running away. Move forward at as rapid a gait as you deem prudent. Pitch into anything and you'll be supported by the whole command." Reno had 140 men which if the village had been running away would have been devastating. Of course they weren't running away which forced Reno to toe a line. Custer saw this from near Reno hill where he realized that he had achieved tactical surprise. Reno was not yet in trouble so Custer moved north in a time tested and textbook move to attack the flank. This would serve to split the combatant forces in two. Custer sends a message back to Benteen who was sent south to scout to move up and bring packs as quickly as they can. This means Reno's force would double and would actually be more men than Custer had with him. Reno of course couldn't hold his ground due to overwhelming Native forces which freed all of them up to counter attack Custer further north. Reno's retreat was more than likely unknown to Custer. It is suspected that he pursued the fleeing non-combatants because this tactic had worked before and was the easiest way to win the battle and achieve the goals of the entire campaign to return the natives to their respective reservations. It wasn't about being brave or cowardly it was about meeting the goals of the campaign set forth by echelons above him. The fact that the natives actually fought when put on the defensive was a shocker to everyone because they had never done that before. They always fought retreating battles when caught by surprise and they almost always fought when it was at their choosing. This battle went against Custer because the terrain just happened to work in the native's favor. If they didn't have the terrain advantage it probably would have played out very differently.
he didn't underestimate his enemy -- he had an officers' call the night before the attack and told his officers he anticipated 600 - 1000 warriors -- they ran out of ammunition due to Benteen not bringing the pack train up
I am Irish so there is a Monument to Custer and his men, but is there one for the American Indians that died that day. The Building I am LIVING in was Built in 1876 in Clonmel in County Tipperary.
I hear the Crow Nation are the ones that make up most of the indigenous side in this reenactment, as a Lakota and a Northern Arapaho, I disagree with this. They have no right imitating my ancestors who died for their way of life when their ancestors fought to wipe us out.
1103 interesting point and your view should be taken serious if it is shared by a significant portion of your tribe. BTW, I just finished informing a rather ignorant fellow that the crow rode with custer. He did NOT believe it although you and I might disagree on much of the historical interpretation of this fascinating event, I believe your views and those of your fellow tribe members (sorry, that is a very awkward way to say that) should be respected. Maybe a little like having germans play jews in the story of ann frank.
The Real Bird Family are playing both sides of the multi-culturalism issue. Go to one of their re-enactments and you will be completely confused by their stance on this epic event and the future and even the past of natives in MY COUNTRY!
1103jbrown what you say is 100% true, my native brother. The Absaroka peoples were always on the side of the Wasichu. Many of the men became scouts for the army because they knew the land and terrain, where the best water was and grass for horses ( the Greasy Grass country) Good feed for the horses of all the natives. There must have been plenty of buffalo meat for the warriors and women and children too. Life was probably pretty good before Totanka Yotanka had his vision days before the 25th of June. What if the Lakota and Cheyenne had heeded his admonition about taking NOTHING from the dead soldiers ? Would it have made a difference to the army and the government ? Frankly, I doubt it. The natives were to be considered " hostiles" -- mainly because they refused to "sell" the Black Hills country, so it had to be taken by force. And wiping out the people who were betrayed by wasichu policies was the only solution. Hence, the campaign of the plains, and Custer's demise.
I think it's a tradgety to see the terrible conditions the Lakota people have to endure on the reservation. A life span of 48 for men, and 52 for women says it all.
"Custer met his match in Chief Sitting Bull" ??? What?? Do your research dopes!! Sitting Bull had virtually nothing to do with the Indian Victory that day!! See: Crazy Horse, Gall, White Bull, et al. But it makes good copy!! Unfortunately, the Indians learned what many would learn...The European never gives up!! They may lose battles but very rarely the War!! They keep coming!!
Custer's theme song was called Garryowen, an Irish jig with a marching tempo. He fighting troops found it inspiring since his civil war days, and the battles he won at Vicksburg, etc. It was played often when he was leading his 7th to battles. It probably wasn't thought of when his men were surrounded like water flowing around a stone.
I believe you mean Gettsyburg not Vicksburg. Custer wasn't there for Vicksburg. Actually he saved the Union by his Calvary charges with the Michigan Wolverines whipping JEB Stuart from getting into Meade's Art. Park at the East Cavalry Field West of HANOVER. This was timed with Picketts Charge as a usually successful flank movement! Fortunately it failed thanks to Custer!
Custer was a decent general. Really the only mistake he made was engaging the enemy with too little numbers before retreating. It could of not even been his fault if he was expecting reinforcements that never showed up. He deserves a mixed opinion about him since you can go either way with what he did.
Things could have been different if... IF Custer had taken his Gatling guns but, he thought that they would slow him down... IF the Army had not been so damned chasp and supplied the troopers with repeating Winchester
@@richardpcrowe The trapdoor springfield the troopers had was superior to the winchester in range, reliability, accuracy and durability. Only in rate of fire was the winchester better and that factor only became decisive when Custer's men were caught out in the open. Bear in mind Reno and Benteen held off the Indians for another day and a half, using those same Springfields. But they were in a strong defensive position with some cover. At that point the troopers numbered about 400, while the Sioux had a least 1000 warriors battle ready.
richard custer could NOT haul the gatling guns over their caissons overland and thru creek bottoms and up countless hills with no roads or paths whatsoever. look at a topographical map and visit the site and see the terrain ...you will understand he was trying to catch the indians together, not pursue them until they broke up into dozens of smaller groups
Where are the graves, and monuments for the brave Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors who took on a technologically superior force led by a ruthless, reckless, and arrogant commander???
I live near the battle field and was told that all the men were stripped and there weapons all except Custer. The Indians believed that he was crazy and wouldn't take a chance of inheriting his crazy spirit.
The Indians were fighting Custer they were fighting history. Nobody can take away from the Indians this very good military victory. I don’t approve of what Americans that came in did you American Indians but let me say this they’re not the peaceful people they portrayed in the movies they killed each other Chick-fil-A from each other there like every other human being. Where are the Indians went wrong was not adapting to what the current circumstances were.
In closing on the subject. The majority of evidence they collected, and personal memories, they acquired, were from Native Americans who participated in the engagements on those two days. Mind the fact that those stories were told or remembered long after the battle had been fought. In many cases even years. Thank you so much for letting me preach my piece. Thanks for the video - Duc above. 👍💭🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🗯️👍
In a nutshell.... it was a bloody rout! You can count on one thing.... Custer did NOT stand on Last Stand Hill. He was shot through the left breast midstream, as he led the charge across the Little Big Horn river, he was carried to the place of the last stand, he died from a shot to the temple. It is likely he shot himself because his body was the only one not to be mutilated by the Indians, they did not favour taking scalps from, or mutilating, enemies that committed suicide. many troopers committed suicide on that fateful day, it is recorded in the book: Custer's Fall by David Humphreys Miller, the Indian account of the battle. Who can blame them, when they were faced by a horrific demise?
That’s made up None of the Indians who were actually there tell that story Crazy horse himself tells of the last stand on the hill and Custer died there. The made up bull of a soldier in buckskins and gold hair being dot crossing the river is a lie. None of Custers soldiers made it to the river
It's a complete myth that Custer was shot crossing the river. A Lakota warrior called White Cow Bull claimed to have shot a figure dressed in a buckskin shirt leading the charge across the river. As another poster pointed out, Custer's command never actually got into the river, as substantial numbers of Indians had already crossed from the village side to the other bank to repulse them. Some of the soldiers and accompanying civilians were wearing buckskins that day (the frontier army was fairly relaxed about dress regulations), but Custer wasn't one of them. He'd already changed into regular battle fatigues. None of the other warriors present claimed to have seen any soldiers shot in the river and some of them later refuted it. A few even said that White Cow Bull was not present at the river when the Lakota engaged Custer's troops. In the heat and chaos of battle, the Indians had no idea they were fighting Custer, particularly as he had taken them somewhat by surprise. It was only after the battle that they learned who commanded the cavalry which attacked them.
at last someone who has looked properly at what happened three cheyenne warriors bobtail horse, roan and calf were watering their ponies when custer attacked they opened fire on them and a statement later said a man in the front and middle of the attack was hit we saw blood on his buckskins would explain the following chaos of the seventh cavalry having lost leadership coordination
Mo Rocca is so disrespectful to history.... thankfully there are good, well versed historians, re-enactors and park rangers to tell us the story in a respectful way. (Even if somewhat inaccurate. Seek out accounts passed down through the Lakota and Cheyenne peoples.)
Custer was a nut job !!! and the Indians were not as primitive as believed they had plenty of lever action rifles and were efficient with them !!! and if you look at the terain it favors fighting on foot !!! it was a rought and probably lasted about 10 minutes surrounded them and picked them off and chased the stragglers and finished them off easily
Cavalry commanders are generally daring and aggressive. But the risk is always to be a calculated, risk calculated with fast thinking and taking advantage to leverage on enemy mistakes. Vanity being a prime factor in that calculation results in graves. It's not like famous commanders in history haven't been doing things with their political glories at the forefront of their minds too, Julius Caesar springs to mind... But yeah, this was stupidity. "Last stand hill" is what has romanticized the battle, but it was a disorganised desperate retreat.
He was actually more like a cheerleader. Indians didn't have a command structure where one person gave orders and the troops carried them out. They fought in small groups or individually. There was no grand strategy and Custer didn't ride into a trap.
@@MJ-we9vu That sounds correct I think really the thing was he made some tactical decisions they weren’t good and also the Indians a lot of them were there at that time and obviously they were very angry what can I say they thought very well.
Now one thing I disagree with with Native Americans is they weren’t living here peacefully for thousands of years before the white man came they had war among tribes they took slaves there like any other people and if you know your Bible you know that people are depraved sinful and you got a remember to not only Indians were nice people here. However, there was no excuse what was done to those people. Much respect to the Indians.
Go back to the early 1800s, when the Cherokee and others were driven off the land, again for gold. The Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama were and still are gold rich states.
People have made Custer out to be some sort of brave, mysterious hero. I assure you, he was not. What hero takes women and children captive to use as human shields? What hero attacks a village early in the morning while everyone is still sleeping and murders, yes MURDERS, unarmed women and children trying to flee the slaughter? What happened at the Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) was payback for the Sand Creek and Little Washita massacres. In the beginning of the battle at the Greasy Grass, Custer attempted to take some of the Lakota women captive and use them to cause the warriors not to fight. He failed, and got what was coming to him. Also interesting to note, it was a Lakota WOMAN who first knocked Custer off his horse. Her name was "Buffalo Calf Road Woman".
Uh, if you could look beyond the PC BS you'd know that by taking women and children hostages it would force the warriors to surrender. Meaning less casualties. Something wrong with that? Sounds like legitimate military tactics. Or would you have advised Custer and his soldiers to simply slaughter warriors and women and children?
@@TWS-pd5dc Politically correct? It is the coward's way to hide behind human shields. You have no way of knowing that those women and children would have simply been "hostages". He slaughtered women and children at the Little Washita. This was WELL KNOWN by all the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho at the Greasy Grass. Less casualties, you say? Custer's intention was to inflict as many casualties as possible. He had no desire to take prisoners. You seem to forget who the man was, an arrogant, pompous, glory seeker, and rapist of young Native girls.
@bravo23 delta What does your "study" of the battle have do with whether one side or the other "deserved" to win? What about the battle itself lends credence to your conclusion? You have two groups fighting with each other. Why does one side "deserve" to beat the other side? If you go outside the battle and base your claim on the history between whites and Indians, then your "study" of the battle is irrelevant.
I can tell you this , the last minutes of this battle, was very bad. Not being here on this day, I know that in the last moments, it was every man for himself. Running and trying to find cover, the soldiers were running for their lives. They all perished in June ,1876. Had Custer waited for the other part of the column to arrive, this battle may have been very different. Custer didn’t wait. His arrogance got In the way of this battle. He killed his own men by staying to fight. The Indians did fight. Indians had Winchester rifles. 7 th cavalry were using Springfield trapdoor single shots. Last Stand Hill Talks to you.
If custer had over two hundred soldiers why thiers not more grave markers .in area and in ravine of 28 soldiers make sense the grond be softer and be buried deeper and covered by dirt from in the hill side
I took the tour TODAY of Little Bighorn and they say Custer’s body was completely unharmed. No mutilation. Not scalped. This video says otherwise. So which is true?
zeke custer was NOT mutilated (I've read it dozens of times) but some sioux women stuck their sewing 'awes" thru his ears so that he would "hear better in the after life".
Zeke 6781. His ears were reamed out by the women with their sewing awls to pierce buffalo hides. The body was stripped naked so as to humiliate him in the after life. His ears were mutilated so as to enable him to hear better in the afterlife, since he refused to acknowledge the grievances of the natives in the previous life. I don't believe he was scalped, there would have been no point to that, because he was considered unworthy and a coward, showing contemptible behavior in council with the chiefs many days before the LBH battle.
There were just too many Indians they simply overwhelm them they were not really prepare for battle there resistance was poorly coordinated I’m sure some hot very briefly but even with the superior weapons they were in a strategically impossible place. Once they were surrounded they should’ve taken the rim that other forces and made a break out.
There is a "label", if you will, expressed by analysts and briefers in Military Intelligence that equates to arrogant and dismissive attitudes of native troops by US commanders. It's called "The Custer Syndrome". It was quite prevalent during Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.
Also, Custer sent his bugler with a message to Capt. Benteen and the supply mule train to hurry up with ammunition. The bugler was with Custer's companies until right before their attack, and being sent back with the message saved his life. He was the last trooper to see Custer and the doomed companies he took with him.
For people wanting to attend in 2025, or later let me tell you about my 2024 experience. What you see in various videos of the reinactment, late 19th Army riding and firing, did take place in 2024. However they lasted 5 or 10 minutes. They were preceded by an hour plus of introduction and history of the northern plains Native American interactions with Europeans and Americans. Kind or boring and not particularly relevant to the battle. In addition I found the attire of the announcers to be at odds with the spirit of the reinactment. You would think their attire would be similar to or at least pay some homage to northern plains Native American attire in the late 19th. But no. The announcers were attired in jeans, snap western shirts, and cowboy hats., They were were dressed as cowboys. They could have been extras on a John Wayne movie. I guess those were the clothes they wear most days. Well OK you wear what's in your closet. But you would think for the great celebration of their ancestors the announcers attire would be different. I get it that the reinactors of most of the Native Americans are Crows and their ancestors rode with Custer.
Luis Chavez. Sitting Bull ( called Totanka -- buffalo, Yotanka -- that sits down ) was not a real "chief". He was considered a powerful medicine man with powerful visions that mostly came true and was revered for what he saw. He was 45 years old, too old to fight in battle. He told his people to take NOTHING from the dead soldiers or misfortune would befall his people. They did not, however, heed his admonition. The women stripped him naked to humiliate him in the afterlife and pierced his ears to enable him to hear better the grievances of his enemies in the afterlife. Custer was just an arrogant fool who had nothing but contempt for all the plains nations and got what he deserved. I am a white wasichu who can recognize injustice, no matter the age.
Someone didn't do his homework. First, it's BENTEEN, not Bentsen. Second, Benteen & Reno formed a defensive perimeter which proved to be their salvation. They were as hard-pressed as Custer so they were in no position to rescue anyone. Finally, Custer was basically in exile at the time. He had to beg to reclaim command of the Seventh Cavalry; & once there, he aimed to make it pay off. So, yes, it was his idea.
How can people continue to question what happened at The Little Big Horn? The 145th anniversary is coming upon us two wks from today. I have been reading, studying, and constantly, finding new evidence, by historian's, history buffs, archeologist, and people who worked and lived on the Battlefield.
Myself I am Sixty Two years old. I have been occupied with this event, since I was fourteen years old. When I found out, and realized, my mother's home town was in that general area of Wyoming, it made me become fascinated with our native American History. Especially the Wars with them ( 1850-1890 ) era.
In my studying the battle I've come too learn alot. Never forget that history as recorded is usually done by the Victor, not the Losser . The thing I'm trying to say is this. On that given day no one knows what happened with Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's, five troops of Cavalry on that June 25th afternoon for sure. Because there were no white or military and other persons as survivors, ( except possibly one Crow scout ) all other members of his battalion, having been wiped out. As they tell people at the Battlefield, the rest of the details have been gathered from the evidence found on the sites. Sorry for my long windedness? This particular engagement took place in an area roughly, I guess three to five miles sq. of rolling grasslands. They say that Custer's total time in touch and battle with the enemy forces against him was less than two hours. The engagement on Last Stand Hill was possible less than a half hour in length.
My two previous comments should be read together. I apologize I missed up earlier. Thanks again. 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸
I have read that Lakota presence on this land was a mere 40 years, as they had cleansed the Crow from the area who had a much longer claim and presence to the area, and that includes the spirit aspect too.
The Lakota drove them off the land only to suffer the same fate themselves.
Thus is the way of the world sometimes.
The troops in that expeditionary force were poorly trained and badly led.
They suffered accordingly for their mistakes but the results were never in question.
The way of the plains Indians were drawing to end.
In historical terms their way was very brief, and they had the Spanish to thank for the horses.
Nothing stands still.
Ditto Southern Africa and East Africa.
I think the nearest you would find now would be the mongols on the Steppe.
Even their way has evolved though.
Excellent story and well done! I had the chance to visit this site, and it truly is a place that just made my heart ache. All these years growing up, Custer was in my mind a victim.... Until I went there and saw the results, and walked through the exhibits.
The Native side of the story is tragic. I learned that the Natives had many hero's too, and many warriors. They fought so hard to keep their land, and that is tragic. It's not really what I remember learning in school, but a valuable lesson to take your kids to this, and let them learn the reality of what transpired.
The day I left that site, was the day I realize how vital and special the Native Americans are and were. I have a new found respect for them, and their culture. As I traveled on, I watched the beautiful Buffalo's, and realized what a tragedy the Natives went through. That's a side of history that needs to be better explained.
So true bro
Custer was a fool. He may well have been a brave fool. But still a fool.
The natives were betrayed by the Wasichu, plain and simple. What would you do if the army invaded your homestead or ranch and tried to force you off and into substandard housing, taking away your lively hood that you had known all your life? And raided your food pantry, destroying it before your very eyes. Would you NOT stand up for your rights ? Would you not resort to violence ? That is precisely what the native americans did. They had been persued, hunted, killed, even massacred in large amounts by government soldiers, to the point of simple desperation. They had had enough. They didn't want to have to fight the Wasichu. Too many of their men would be killed, which they could not afford. Their buffalo were being needlessly slaughtered. They often went hungry and their winters were harsh, even in times before white encroachment. They had had enough. They made an example of Custer because of his contempt for all the plains tribes. He refused to listen to their plights as did the government he was part of. They had had enough. Custer got what he deserved. The women multilated his ears with awls so that he could hear better in the afterlife. The men and women refused to heed Sitting Bull's warning of taking nothing from the dead. It must have saddened the chief that his admonitions were not needed. He believed, therefore, that great hardships would befall his people, which they indeed did. I have been to these re-inactments several times. The natives are all part of the Crow tribe, which is on their reservation. It always makes me leave with tears in my eyes and a bad feeling in my heart -- NOT because of what happened to the men of the 7th, but more of how the natives were forced to respond to the injustices and what they had to endure in the years that followed. All a sad situation for a proud, independent and strong peoples -- until they had to content with white GREED. Yes, I speak as a white wasichu, but I,as any sane person, can recognize injustice. Injustice prevails today in 2021, as it has for many generations in the past.
on my bucket list
I have been to LBH. I walked all over the area and listened to the Park Rangers who were all Native Americans. Custer was truly a hero in the Civil War for the reason that he led his troops into battle. He did not send them. And he was only in his early 20's. That said, he had clearly gotten a bit too full of himself as a so-called Indian Fighter. He was so arrogant to believe that the 7trh Cavalry was unbeatable. He could not believe that the "Indians" would be able to put together a force of warriors that would outnumber his troops 5 to 1. He paid the price for that lack of judgement. In a little less than two hours the squaws and children were stripping and mutilating every soldier and civilian who were killed. As anyone who has studied the plight of the Native Americans from the Jamestown settlement to the late 1800's has come to know, how could you not be ashamed at was was done to those people who had been on this continent for thousands of years. The white man simply waltzed in and took whatever they wanted. That was mostly the land the Indians lived on. And to worsen things the Native Americans were forced to live on reservations. And that doesn't even touch the massacres like Sand Creek and Wounded Knee. Just think about this for a moment and realize that you would do the same thing as the Indians did if things were reversed.
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull...legends.
Lol
@Double Vision wow...just so you know people back then weren't stupid...he was an American hero ....
Almost as big as legends as Custer.
I'm pretty sure the native Americans who killed Custer are the unknown ones and not necessarily Crazy horse himself and definitely not sitting bull who is calling the shots from behind the scenes
All American Heroes who made history!!!
The Battle of Bannockburn and the Battle of the Little Big Horn are my two favourite Battles.
First in the class of 1861: Patrick J. O'Rorke: Engineer in the Union Army, several times breveted; killed at Gettysburg two years after graduating.
If you go to little round top you can find a bust of him, the bust of him has a shiny nose because tourist believe it’s lucky to rub an Irishman’s nose
All participants in battles suffer whether they are on the winning side or not, however, perhaps the ones that suffer the most are the horses that through no fault or quarrel of their own are brought in to take part in wars that they had nothing to do with starting. It is fitting that in this case they are remembered, and tribute is paid for their sacrifice in being buried in the horses cemetery of the 7th cavalry. At least in this case their final resting place was marked with marble tombstone and recognition was made of their unwitting participation in this battle.
I read in a history book (years ago) the only survivor of the 7th at "Last Stand Hill" was a horse named Comanche ( Officer Keough's mount perhaps).
Quite amazing that horses never got extinct due to them getting killed in battles that actually involved the soldiers riding them.. same thing as well to camels and elephants specially from middle eastern and African civilizations..
Patrick O’Rorke graduated at the top of the class of 1861 at West Point. He was killed at the battle of Gettysburg leading the 140th New York in a bayonet charge on the west slope of little round top. He should get as much praise and attention as Joshua Chamberlin. Thanks CBS...
One guy died at Little Big Horn, the other at Little Round Top..
I’m sure he gets his just dues.
Amazing how with modenrcameras, reenactments look so different than form the movies made in the 40's and 70's! Don't you agree?
Well they couldn't have 90% naked Indians on film because of censorship. On hot summer days Indians dressed like the reenactors.
Hollywood screws up every historical event they touch.
“Who graduated first? Who cares?” Is a shockingly bad take. Patrick H. O’Rorke graduated first and was a major hero of the battle of Gettysburg defending the Union flank on Little Round Top. He died that day and is a legend for his heroics.
Funny how both the top and bottom of the class were famous men in the end. Both having endings in battle. One in glory, the other in disgrace. History is a funny thing
@@chucaruba109 Class rank means nothing in the military. Custer and Grant graduated at the bottom of their classes. McClellen at or near the top of his class. War is about killing as many of the enemy as possible, and not everyone has the stomach for it. McClellen was a good desk soldier, but was too timid to use his great advantage in manpower and supplies to defeat the enemy. Custer charged at the head of his troops, making himself the target of the enemy. Grant moved ahead relentlessly, enduring the losses of his soldiers, and moved ahead again, unlike previous commanders, who retreated after being bloodied. Had either Custer or Grant been in the Confederate Army, they might have been dismissed from command for the great loss of their troops. The South simply didn't have the men to lose recklessly. Since the Union had a large supply of cannon fodder, particularly the recent immigrants (poor and without political power), the Union could afford the losses. In the end, Grant and Custer were the killers necessary to defeat the south. Neither seemed to suffer from remorse over the slaughter of the enemy or their own troops. Custer just as well could have won a victory had he led the charge into the village at head of his total command. I think that the Indians would have retreated under the assault of 600 troopers. Regardness of how many movies show otherwise, Indians didn't endure large losses during their wars with the white man or other Indian tribes. Indians fought when they had a clear advantage, but always left the field before enduring large losses of warriors. An Indian village could only afford to lose a small percentage of males each year, as the men were needed as hunters to provide food for the village as well as defense of the village.
I can tell you were never in the military. Being first in things matters!
Thanks for the story and for remembering.
Let's not forget Crazy Horse, Gall, and Rain in the face
I continue to love your show. I miss Charles Osgood's calming, reassuring, voice. I miss him. Tell him he has so many fans that wish he and his family the best.
All and any of 'em, lol.
Imagine all the artifacts that are still there. It’s amazing to think about. Just imagine being able to time travel and see it only to jump back into the future and see the quietness and the difference
Philbrick has written a book about the battle. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.... Kind of a long title, but like all of his books I really enjoyed it.
Patrick H. O'Rorke was 1st in Custers Class. He was killed on Little Round Top the 2d day of the battle of Gettysburg.
Custer was a major hero at Gettysburg...stopped the cavalry charge of Jeb Stewart on day 2!
Everyday we can all celebrate winning the peace.
And make a lot of good days to enjoy living.
no mentioning of Crazy Horse??
Exactly
Right? I had really no understanding of what happened. I was always under the impression that Custer and his men were warriors, and the good guys. I mean, that's what I got out of my learning in school.
I have to say that my visit to this site 3 years ago changed so much of my perspective. I learned that the Natives also had warriors and hero's. And I learned that what they were fighting for was the right to their land and freedom. It truly was an eye opener for me.
That site is sacred, and you get the chills in your spine for sure. But the educational value of seeing this is so important. I strongly encourage families take a visit here. I also think history books in classrooms need some major revamping.
@@ChrisJohnson-hk6es Learn a little more. Find out how the Sioux attained the "land they were fighting for". They took it by force from the Crow and Arikara tribes who had it before the Sioux. The Sioux drove them off. That's why Crow and Arikara acted as scouts for Custer. In history there are rarely "good guys and bad buys", there are both.
@@ChrisJohnson-hk6es Custer was the good guy.
@@ChrisJohnson-hk6es I think there's a difference between warriors and soldiers....we had soldiers
Who finished 1st in Custers class at Westpoint, apparently it was Patrick H. O’Rorke, Colonel USV, Killed commanding the 140th New York Infantry on Little Round Top at Gettysburg.
An excellent Tribute and explanation of that Fight. IT is very well done 👍👏. I'M sitting at Home 🏡🏡 in my Cozy Chair💺invisioning the anniversary is Ten Days away & how I would enjoy seeing the reenactment of that Epic Fight, on or close to it's True Site. That would be Epic for Me. As they say the Battle was a Key 🗝️🗝️ element in the Time Log of our Countries very vast & extremely ugh Rich Western History. One that I crave too know seek, & learn more n more about. Thank You for the Wonderful telling above. 👍👍🙏🙏🤔🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🪦🪦🦬🦬🗝️🗝️.
The Ranger does an excellent job!
Yeah, it was, technically, about land. More precisely, it was about the gold on and in that land.
@trha2222 yes but the US Army arested indians and didnt care for them whilst the settlers got and mined on their land and the settlers broke the truice first
James Allen please read my comments in this section. You will understand what the natives were forced to do in this situation.
We saw this reenactment 4 years ago. There is another reenactment further away that has more fighting, but this one is on the Little Bighorn River and the native Americans do a fine job, especially with the horses. Tied time I’ve been to the Battlefield. First time as a child with my grandparents. Reenactments are the weekend of June 25th.Weather can change fast.
My wife and I visited the reenactment several years back, as well. You're right, the horses were amazing. Such control. Travelling through the park was sobering.
I'm guessing that the people portraying the native American tribes involved in the reenactments of the battle of little bighorn and other similar battles are actual native Americans
Wish i could have been apart of the reenactment im Oglala Lakota and very proud of my Oyate Aho hecitu Mitakuye Oyasin.
I would risk my life for my people Aho hecitu Mitakuye Oyasin
Hoksila Wakian THUNDER BOY yes reckless brutal viva indian ✊
hoksila
another lakota commented earlier that he very much resented the crow who performed as sioux in the re-enactment.
I thought this was an interesting view and one with, at least, some merit.
if you read this I would very much be interested in your view of this unusual subject
thanks in advance
Final moments must have been sheer madness near top of ridge
No mention of Crazy Horse
Steve Adelson brings it alive.
i love history and especialy the old days in America , little big horn , bonnie and Clyde , Bugsy Malone , Wyatt Earp etc etc etc and would love to visit but I'm in the uk and hate flying !! these videos are brilliant though 👍
Last stand hill...like little round top at Gettysburg...hallowed ground.
Custer did not survive and win in the Civil War by underestimating the enemy,but in this battle he did.He left the gatling guns back at camp.
Boney
LOL the Gatling guns only work for IDIOTS!!! The NATIVES never sat still or marched in row side to side touching arms.
Sabers.tp
Robert Boney that in and of itself would have had a devistating effect on the out come of the battle, as would automatic weapons be in modern conflicts in a similar situation now days. It's possible Custer could have survived, but with a loss of a great number of his 220 men. One can only speculate.
@@jesscast5122 oh really. I'd like to see you trying to rush a Gatling gun. Obviously they had wheels and could move too. If they were with, it would have been a different story today.
@mikhail gorbachev ok for one thing (the enemy) wasn't running way. They were advancing.
The second thing. those guns weren't run by one man. Sometimes 3 men run them in a team.
The third thing. Stand in front of me when I unload on you and then tell me that they we're highly inaccurate.
Why glorify a villain? They were intruding and they lost.
AMERICAN INDIAN LIVES MATTER!!!
Its history man. Every tribe on the face of the earth has its bloody history and savagery..
@@michaelmooney7341 Roger that! THEY (american Indians) were beaten by a bigger tribe!!
If you look into his eyes he wasn't a wimp... He pushed his luck and ran into his demise. HE WHOM LIVES BY THE SWORD SHALL DIE THE SAME WAY .
George & Tom Custer Civil War hero's.
Custer was a brave man However, when it came to fighting Native Americans he dropped the ball.
Reno and Benteen dropped the ball.
LOL there is no winner In a slaughter
Custer was an exceptional military leader throughout his career. Funny how we view these things from afar. In modern history we admire Yamamoto. Canonize Che and Fidel. Hero worship Mao and quote him everywhere. Idolize communist slaughterers like Ho. Because he was vain, Custer has become a derided and despised figure. He was a military leader of his time, where a modernizing world met with a passing world. We either live in mud huts and caves, with a life expectancy of 40 years or we advance. Judge it how you wish. Mud huts are easy to make and there are plenty of caves. Custer will always unfortunately remembered by his last actions. The course of history barely changed because of Custer. Ho, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Che, Fidel, the Khmer Rouge etc murdered millions.
Yeah, I mean he was known mostly for destroying villages of women and children whilst the warriors where away. Real brave man.
When he met the real warriors, what happened to the "brave" man?
Lmao.
@@poco1174 What a load of bile. This isn't about communism vs capitalism. It was about two different civilisations clashing as one wanted to dominate the other for their resources.
What happen to crazy horse
they ran out of ammunition -- Benteen did not come up with the packs as ordered
Benteen &nearly all the officers hated Custer,they were found not guilty at the court martial
Nobody was court-martialed over the Little Bighorn. Major Reno requested a court of inquiry over allegations that he was a coward and had disobeyed orders.
They love you Custer and all his men were dead before Benteen could ever have gotten to him... for Custer it was over in maybe a half hour.
The battle of little big horn is partly why the Lakota maintains a strong presence today.
boss
what does "strong presence" mean?
@@LtBrown1956 it means "not near extinct" like so many other tribes ended up. I lived in Montana much of my life, and the reservations were, for my small town, a huge part of life
@@sol2544
OK ....is there a sioux reservation at or near LBH? I've been there and there is a large crow reservation there and I believe that the actual battlefield is ON that reservation
the preceding comment seems to indicate that the sioux have a reservation nearly adjacent to the battlefield ....from what I have read, the sioux reservations are mostly in S. Dakota (nearly half the state) with overflow into N. Dakota and Nebraska ....is this not true??
my info also indicates that the battlefield/crow reservation is about 200 miles from the border with the dakota's ....is that also not true??
@@LtBrown1956 just because you win a battle somewhere doesnt mean you quite literally now own that territory. Winning a battle has political repercussions, repercussions here meaning that the Sioux were able to last with a harder impact and have an advantage at the negotiating table of "please dont make us go extinct"
This is what strong presence means. It doesnt mean presence near the battlefield, it means having their culture survive where many other native american tribes had theirs decimated far worse.
If I remember right, americans outright revoked many reservations and forced natives off of even those in the east, so the fact that the reservations in the northwest america still are here is a small blessing compared to the trail of tears
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I am just trying to figure out if you know what you are talking about.
your comments:
- subject was sioux and "strong presence"
- YOU linked "not near extinct" with "strong presence" and then with indian reservations
- YOU state you lived in montana much of your life and "RESERVATIONS" were "huge" part of life
from these comments I believed you indicated and implied that SIOUX reservations were part of a "huge" part of your life in montana
I merely pointed out that a SIOUX reservation in montana was inconsistent with what I understood regarding the location of sioux indian reservations ...I asked questions regarding this subject to see if my knowledge was incorrect but you did NOT answer ANY of these questions.
instead, you respond with a somewhat incoherent comment about the plight of the sioux and other tribes.
were you intentionally try to mislead with your ori comment or were you simply typing before thinking ....BTW, typing without thinking is very common on YT and it is NO sin ....I have had to cancel a few comments of my own when I caught myself "typing without thinking"
I don’t really care what happened I still think Custer was a badass
Not as bad as his brother Tom, who earned two medals of honor.
very good
Fyi...I see lots of "well fed" 200 lbr's in the reenactment video...the avg weight of a 7th cavalry trooper in 1876 was 130 lbs at about 5'6"...just sayin.
us Cavalry requirements is that the soldier weigh less than 140 ponds, and equipment is less than 60 ponds, no more than 200 pounds on his horse
No wonder they got wrecked
@bravo23 delta Do you want to know why that is ?? It's because they all suffer from a very poor diet. Little, if any fresh fruits and vegetables. Lots of starchy foods, junk food that they can readily obtain from res convenience stores. Try living on candy, chips, pop, whiskey or beer and an occasional carrot or potato. Ya know, alcoholism and diabetes, heart disease is rampant in older folks past the age of 30. Doctor visits are only for folks too sick to function. Medicine is scarce. They are wards of the government and largely ignored. Covid is taking a drastic toll on some of these people. Reservations are largely ignored from vaccination programs to the detriment of everyone's health, which already has underlying pre- conditions, but inadequate diet is primarily to blame for " obesity", not because they are living so "high on the hog.". Think about it for a few minutes, if you dare. I don't visit res too often unless I have to stop for gas. I see a lot of kids playing video games eating potato chips and drinking soda pop. There is nothing for them to occupy their time productively, so they'll while away their time as they see fit. I'm sure all of Montana reses are pretty much the same, sadly. If a kid is lucky and able to go to college, he ( or she ) might have a chance at a decent job for the future of themselves, their relatives, or their tribal government. That's not always the case, but there are exceptions. I have seen a few of these exceptionally lucky and motivated native folks. It is a joy to see that some can find success in this "modern world".
@@robertshorthill4153 Many of them had spinal problems from riding many miles on horseback. And what is not generally known is that many troopers were immigrants from Europe. The Army was always looking for new recruits.
@@christopherfranklin1881 yes, and those that joined the army were generally low skilled, thus unemployable in civilian life. Rather than starve, as they had probably been doing in their native country, they joined the army. Pay of $13 a month wasn't too bad in those days and free food and clothing wasn't either. But can you imagine sleeping in flimsy tents while on bivouac on the Montana prairie, during a thunder storm at night or when temperatures reached near 100 degrees during the day with a wind of 60 mph. Life must have been brutal at best. Officers didn't fare much better, I'm sure, but with the tune Garryowen running through their head, they might have been inspired to carry on. I often wonder if that tune was even thought of by the boys of the 7th as they were being surrounded by native warriors in unbelievable numbers -- nearly 8 or 9 to one. The 7th had inferior weapons on top of being outnumbered. Doom was definitely in the cards for the white soldiers.
I saw a re-enactment of this battle in Kabul recently.
Cheyenne and Sioux were the best lite horsemen in the world.
No the were not; probably the Comanches were.
@@robertboney4493 you don't sound certain about that
Even if you laugh in victory, in time you will mourn in death.
"There is a way which seemth right unto a man but the end thereof is the way of Death". Prov. 14:12
@@IntheBlood67 We all have a date with death….. fear not.
I make the not very astute observation that that it is difficult for any commander to win a battle, when more than 7/12th's of your command disobey orders and stays out of the battle, despite a written order to consolidate and "COME QUICK!". Duh....
Reno was supposed to be supported by custer.instesd he rode off and left them.the 400 plus even if they had reunited with Custer would just have been killed with him.the unknown numbers of the natives played a big role in the course of the battle because it was a huge surprise to Reno. No matter how you cut it in that era 650 against 1500 to 3000 is insurmountable
@@robertallen9095 Reno panicked, fled the field and commenced drinking. Benteen...hunkered down under Reno's shadow and did nothing....all day. Custer's mistake was trusting subordinates, who hated him, to follow orders.
Crook abandoned the fight on the Rosebud, and Terry and Gibbon were...shall we say, "A tad tardy". Join the club boys.
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After the Battle Sitting Bull and others fled to Canada, but many who fought Custer simply returned to the reservation on their own. The buffalo were gone and they had made THEIR stand and won.
"Custer met his match in Chief Sitting Bull" and having 10k warriors against a single battalion of cav didn't hurt either.
Yea it wasnt the usual women and kids custer was used to fighting.
Well he was facing actual warriors and not the terrified children and women that he was used to.
Honestly, the tribes didn't have 10,000 warriors. They didn't need that many.
custer must have skipped class that day when they taught you don't underestimate your enemy.
David Skeels amen
You mean you shouldn't think the enemy would do what it did every single time previously when attacked by surprise?
custer ordered reno to attack a village of that size with ninety or so men. reno was the brave man that day.custer was on his way to gather up the women n children n old people as hostages. you call that brave? and he had two hundred n sixty men with him.
David Skeels Custer was under the impression they had been spotted by the natives and historically speaking that meant they would more than likely scatter which was the norm. They were however not spotted and the village was not scattering and Custer actually caught them by surprise, twice. When Reno was ordered to attack it was with the understanding they were running. "Major Reno, the village is just ahead and running away. Move forward at as rapid a gait as you deem prudent. Pitch into anything and you'll be supported by the whole command."
Reno had 140 men which if the village had been running away would have been devastating. Of course they weren't running away which forced Reno to toe a line. Custer saw this from near Reno hill where he realized that he had achieved tactical surprise. Reno was not yet in trouble so Custer moved north in a time tested and textbook move to attack the flank. This would serve to split the combatant forces in two. Custer sends a message back to Benteen who was sent south to scout to move up and bring packs as quickly as they can. This means Reno's force would double and would actually be more men than Custer had with him.
Reno of course couldn't hold his ground due to overwhelming Native forces which freed all of them up to counter attack Custer further north. Reno's retreat was more than likely unknown to Custer. It is suspected that he pursued the fleeing non-combatants because this tactic had worked before and was the easiest way to win the battle and achieve the goals of the entire campaign to return the natives to their respective reservations.
It wasn't about being brave or cowardly it was about meeting the goals of the campaign set forth by echelons above him. The fact that the natives actually fought when put on the defensive was a shocker to everyone because they had never done that before. They always fought retreating battles when caught by surprise and they almost always fought when it was at their choosing. This battle went against Custer because the terrain just happened to work in the native's favor. If they didn't have the terrain advantage it probably would have played out very differently.
he didn't underestimate his enemy -- he had an officers' call the night before the attack and told his officers he anticipated 600 - 1000 warriors -- they ran out of ammunition due to Benteen not bringing the pack train up
Epic battle? Didn't they get slaughtered so fast it was like a hungry man eating his dinner....
Yes,with single shot trap door Infields what else could have been the outcome? They was out numbered and outgunned from the start.
Within an hour or so LOL
I am Irish so there is a Monument to Custer and his men, but is there one for the American Indians that died that day. The Building I am LIVING in was Built in 1876 in Clonmel in County Tipperary.
Yes there is a monument to the Indians on the LBH battlefield.
www.nps.gov/libi/learn/historyculture/indian-memorial.htm
Im 9th generation my dad looks like him.
I hear the Crow Nation are the ones that make up most of the indigenous side in this reenactment, as a Lakota and a Northern Arapaho, I disagree with this. They have no right imitating my ancestors who died for their way of life when their ancestors fought to wipe us out.
1103
interesting point and your view should be taken serious if it is shared by a significant portion of your tribe.
BTW, I just finished informing a rather ignorant fellow that the crow rode with custer. He did NOT believe it
although you and I might disagree on much of the historical interpretation of this fascinating event, I believe your views and those of your fellow tribe members (sorry, that is a very awkward way to say that) should be respected.
Maybe a little like having germans play jews in the story of ann frank.
The Real Bird Family are playing both sides of the multi-culturalism issue. Go to one of their re-enactments and you will be completely confused by their stance on this epic event and the future and even the past of natives in MY COUNTRY!
1103jbrown what you say is 100% true, my native brother. The Absaroka peoples were always on the side of the Wasichu. Many of the men became scouts for the army because they knew the land and terrain, where the best water was and grass for horses ( the Greasy Grass country) Good feed for the horses of all the natives. There must have been plenty of buffalo meat for the warriors and women and children too. Life was probably pretty good before Totanka Yotanka had his vision days before the 25th of June. What if the Lakota and Cheyenne had heeded his admonition about taking NOTHING from the dead soldiers ? Would it have made a difference to the army and the government ? Frankly, I doubt it. The natives were to be considered " hostiles" -- mainly because they refused to "sell" the Black Hills country, so it had to be taken by force. And wiping out the people who were betrayed by wasichu policies was the only solution. Hence, the campaign of the plains, and Custer's demise.
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I think it's a tradgety to see the terrible conditions the Lakota people have to endure on the reservation. A life span of 48 for men, and 52 for women says it all.
"Custer met his match in Chief Sitting Bull" ??? What?? Do your research dopes!! Sitting Bull had virtually nothing to do with the Indian Victory that day!! See: Crazy Horse, Gall, White Bull, et al. But it makes good copy!! Unfortunately, the Indians learned what many would learn...The European never gives up!! They may lose battles but very rarely the War!! They keep coming!!
Brad Hamilton; Europeans are losing the war to multi-culturism and islam.
The Germans, French and Italians gave up.
The European? Custer was born in America stop trying to make everything about race
Outnumbered 10 to 1 at least.
Sitting Bull was a medicine man, not a Chief
Custer's theme song was called Garryowen, an Irish jig with a marching tempo. He fighting troops found it inspiring since his civil war days, and the battles he won at Vicksburg, etc. It was played often when he was leading his 7th to battles. It probably wasn't thought of when his men were surrounded like water flowing around a stone.
Dang, I was going to post that and you beat me to it.
I believe you mean Gettsyburg not Vicksburg. Custer wasn't there for Vicksburg. Actually he saved the Union by his Calvary charges with the Michigan Wolverines whipping JEB Stuart from getting into Meade's Art. Park at the East Cavalry Field West of HANOVER. This was timed with Picketts Charge as a usually successful flank movement! Fortunately it failed thanks to Custer!
I'm glad the Indians wrecked em
Custer was a decent general. Really the only mistake he made was engaging the enemy with too little numbers before retreating. It could of not even been his fault if he was expecting reinforcements that never showed up. He deserves a mixed opinion about him since you can go either way with what he did.
Custer made more than one mistake. Taken together, that led to the final outcome.
Things could have been different if...
IF Custer had taken his Gatling guns but, he thought that they would slow him down...
IF the Army had not been so damned chasp and supplied the troopers with repeating Winchester
Instead of the Springfield single shot ,45-70 caliber single shot carbines. But, Army Brass thought that repeating fifles would WASTE AMMUNITION!!!!
@@richardpcrowe The trapdoor springfield the troopers had was superior to the winchester in range, reliability, accuracy and durability. Only in rate of fire was the winchester better and that factor only became decisive when Custer's men were caught out in the open. Bear in mind Reno and Benteen held off the Indians for another day and a half, using those same Springfields. But they were in a strong defensive position with some cover. At that point the troopers numbered about 400, while the Sioux had a least 1000 warriors battle ready.
richard
custer could NOT haul the gatling guns over their caissons overland and thru creek bottoms and up countless hills with no roads or paths whatsoever.
look at a topographical map and visit the site and see the terrain ...you will understand
he was trying to catch the indians together, not pursue them until they broke up into dozens of smaller groups
How would you have deployed Gatling Guns, a defensive weapon, during a cavalry charge?
Say what you will but there was more man in his left boot then our entire administration lol
George Armstrong Custer was a democrat? Good grief! No one should have to die like that. But, everyone be thankful he didn't become president.
Where are the graves, and monuments for the brave Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors who took on a technologically superior force led by a ruthless, reckless, and arrogant commander???
yeah we put those in Oklahoma.
I live near the battle field and was told that all the men were stripped and there weapons all except Custer. The Indians believed that he was crazy and wouldn't take a chance of inheriting his crazy spirit.
Then why wasn't his weapons found by his body ?
Amen
The Indians were fighting Custer they were fighting history. Nobody can take away from the Indians this very good military victory. I don’t approve of what Americans that came in did you American Indians but let me say this they’re not the peaceful people they portrayed in the movies they killed each other Chick-fil-A from each other there like every other human being. Where are the Indians went wrong was not adapting to what the current circumstances were.
The Indians were the heroes in this story. There I said it come at me.
I completely agree. By the way, I am Lakota from Pine Ridge.
but losers in history
@@rogerreyne1877 unfortunately yes
@@rogerreyne1877 not on that day
Too many killings for land. I hope some day we stop this cruelty. Peace.
still fighting, this time it's for blood Oil!
Interesting re-enactment. With the folks watching, popcorn also available?
It's the closest you're ever going to get to seeing history with your own two eyes bud. And your problem is?
@@thomasriggle6371 No problem. It’s you who don’t have a sense of humor.
@@jayzrat laughing at that joke would be like laughing at a pile of rocks. Pretty lame.
In closing on the subject. The majority of evidence they collected, and personal memories, they acquired, were from Native Americans who participated in the engagements on those two days. Mind the fact that those stories were told or remembered long after the battle had been fought. In many cases even years. Thank you so much for letting me preach my piece. Thanks for the video - Duc above. 👍💭🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🗯️👍
In a nutshell.... it was a bloody rout! You can count on one thing.... Custer did NOT stand on Last Stand Hill. He was shot through the left breast midstream, as he led the charge across the Little Big Horn river, he was carried to the place of the last stand, he died from a shot to the temple. It is likely he shot himself because his body was the only one not to be mutilated by the Indians, they did not favour taking scalps from, or mutilating, enemies that committed suicide. many troopers committed suicide on that fateful day, it is recorded in the book: Custer's Fall by David Humphreys Miller, the Indian account of the battle. Who can blame them, when they were faced by a horrific demise?
His ears being pierced is mutilation. No evidence at all he shot himself.
That’s made up
None of the Indians who were actually there tell that story
Crazy horse himself tells of the last stand on the hill and Custer died there.
The made up bull of a soldier in buckskins and gold hair being dot crossing the river is a lie.
None of Custers soldiers made it to the river
It's a complete myth that Custer was shot crossing the river.
A Lakota warrior called White Cow Bull claimed to have shot a figure dressed in a buckskin shirt leading the charge across the river. As another poster pointed out, Custer's command never actually got into the river, as substantial numbers of Indians had already crossed from the village side to the other bank to repulse them.
Some of the soldiers and accompanying civilians were wearing buckskins that day (the frontier army was fairly relaxed about dress regulations), but Custer wasn't one of them. He'd already changed into regular battle fatigues.
None of the other warriors present claimed to have seen any soldiers shot in the river and some of them later refuted it. A few even said that White Cow Bull was not present at the river when the Lakota engaged Custer's troops.
In the heat and chaos of battle, the Indians had no idea they were fighting Custer, particularly as he had taken them somewhat by surprise. It was only after the battle that they learned who commanded the cavalry which attacked them.
at last someone who has looked properly at what happened three cheyenne warriors bobtail horse, roan and calf were watering their ponies when custer attacked they opened fire on them and a statement later said a man in the front and middle of the attack was hit we saw blood on his buckskins would explain the following chaos of the seventh cavalry having lost leadership coordination
Leonard Fleet thought his brother shot him
Mo Rocca is so disrespectful to history.... thankfully there are good, well versed historians, re-enactors and park rangers to tell us the story in a respectful way. (Even if somewhat inaccurate. Seek out accounts passed down through the Lakota and Cheyenne peoples.)
Custer was a nut job !!! and the Indians were not as primitive as believed they had plenty of lever action rifles and were efficient with them !!! and if you look at the terain it favors fighting on foot !!! it was a rought and probably lasted about 10 minutes surrounded them and picked them off and chased the stragglers and finished them off easily
No mention of Custer being found with a bullet wound at his temple. Suicide or a mercy killing.
He died from a gunshot just below his ❤heart.
@@johnrogan9420 he also had a gunshot wound in his left temple
Cavalry commanders are generally daring and aggressive. But the risk is always to be a calculated, risk calculated with fast thinking and taking advantage to leverage on enemy mistakes. Vanity being a prime factor in that calculation results in graves. It's not like famous commanders in history haven't been doing things with their political glories at the forefront of their minds too, Julius Caesar springs to mind... But yeah, this was stupidity.
"Last stand hill" is what has romanticized the battle, but it was a disorganised desperate retreat.
Sitting bull was not one of them military leaders in that battle anybody knows history knows that. I think he was more of like an administrator.
He was actually more like a cheerleader. Indians didn't have a command structure where one person gave orders and the troops carried them out. They fought in small groups or individually. There was no grand strategy and Custer didn't ride into a trap.
@@MJ-we9vu That sounds correct I think really the thing was he made some tactical decisions they weren’t good and also the Indians a lot of them were there at that time and obviously they were very angry what can I say they thought very well.
Now one thing I disagree with with Native Americans is they weren’t living here peacefully for thousands of years before the white man came they had war among tribes they took slaves there like any other people and if you know your Bible you know that people are depraved sinful and you got a remember to not only Indians were nice people here. However, there was no excuse what was done to those people. Much respect to the Indians.
Go back to the early 1800s, when the Cherokee and others were driven off the land, again for gold. The Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama were and still are gold rich states.
You never Split your Force . You don't know size of Enemy force. Custer was reckless .
Ernest Marshall
Well you do when you want to take women and children hostage, like the ‘hero’ Custard...
People have made Custer out to be some sort of brave, mysterious hero. I assure you, he was not. What hero takes women and children captive to use as human shields? What hero attacks a village early in the morning while everyone is still sleeping and murders, yes MURDERS, unarmed women and children trying to flee the slaughter? What happened at the Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) was payback for the Sand Creek and Little Washita massacres. In the beginning of the battle at the Greasy Grass, Custer attempted to take some of the Lakota women captive and use them to cause the warriors not to fight. He failed, and got what was coming to him. Also interesting to note, it was a Lakota WOMAN who first knocked Custer off his horse. Her name was "Buffalo Calf Road Woman".
Yeah poor innocent Indians, mean old rich white men. Blah blah blah
Uh, if you could look beyond the PC BS you'd know that by taking women and children hostages it would force the warriors to surrender. Meaning less casualties. Something wrong with that? Sounds like legitimate military tactics. Or would you have advised Custer and his soldiers to simply slaughter warriors and women and children?
@@TWS-pd5dc Politically correct? It is the coward's way to hide behind human shields. You have no way of knowing that those women and children would have simply been "hostages". He slaughtered women and children at the Little Washita. This was WELL KNOWN by all the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho at the Greasy Grass. Less casualties, you say? Custer's intention was to inflict as many casualties as possible. He had no desire to take prisoners. You seem to forget who the man was, an arrogant, pompous, glory seeker, and rapist of young Native girls.
Indians deserved the win
If they didn't win with 10-1 numbers they never would!
And deserved to lose the war, which they did.
@bravo23 delta
What does your "study" of the battle have do with whether one side or the other "deserved" to win? What about the battle itself lends credence to your conclusion? You have two groups fighting with each other. Why does one side "deserve" to beat the other side?
If you go outside the battle and base your claim on the history between whites and Indians, then your "study" of the battle is irrelevant.
Nope, Custer was an American Hero.
I can tell you this , the last minutes of this battle, was very bad. Not being here on this day, I know that in the last moments, it was every man for himself. Running and trying to find cover, the soldiers were running for their lives. They all perished in June ,1876. Had Custer waited for the other part of the column to arrive, this battle may have been very different. Custer didn’t wait. His arrogance got In the way of this battle. He killed his own men by staying to fight. The Indians did fight. Indians had Winchester rifles. 7 th cavalry were using Springfield trapdoor single shots. Last Stand Hill Talks to you.
If custer had over two hundred soldiers why thiers not more grave markers .in area and in ravine of 28 soldiers make sense the grond be softer and be buried deeper and covered by dirt from in the hill side
Custers biggest mistake was leaving the 3 Gatling guns behind instead of mounting them on the wagons.
I took the tour TODAY of Little Bighorn and they say Custer’s body was completely unharmed. No mutilation. Not scalped.
This video says otherwise.
So which is true?
zeke
custer was NOT mutilated (I've read it dozens of times) but some sioux women stuck their sewing 'awes" thru his ears so that he would "hear better in the after life".
Zeke 6781. His ears were reamed out by the women with their sewing awls to pierce buffalo hides. The body was stripped naked so as to humiliate him in the after life. His ears were mutilated so as to enable him to hear better in the afterlife, since he refused to acknowledge the grievances of the natives in the previous life. I don't believe he was scalped, there would have been no point to that, because he was considered unworthy and a coward, showing contemptible behavior in council with the chiefs many days before the LBH battle.
@@robertshorthill4153 the Indians did not know the were fighting Custer at the time.....
@@LtBrown1956 and slashed his thigh open . Also stuck arrow up his penis .
Thou shall not covet what is not yours.
Custer. Judging the past using todays shifting perclivities.
What is incorrect about the assessment of Custer?
The Sioux was a cruel..savage enemy
Yes and fought along with their beliefs
There was no charge of the village.
There were just too many Indians they simply overwhelm them they were not really prepare for battle there resistance was poorly coordinated I’m sure some hot very briefly but even with the superior weapons they were in a strategically impossible place. Once they were surrounded they should’ve taken the rim that other forces and made a break out.
There is a "label", if you will, expressed by analysts and briefers in Military Intelligence that equates to arrogant and dismissive attitudes of native troops by US commanders. It's called "The Custer Syndrome". It was quite prevalent during Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.
General Custard, should have never broke up his company maybe he would have lived longer.
If there where no servivers at little big horn other than the native Americans how do we know what Custer said an did leading up to battle
He split his forces--there were survivors from the forces led by Benteen and Reno
Also, Custer sent his bugler with a message to Capt. Benteen and the supply mule train to hurry up with ammunition. The bugler was with Custer's companies until right before their attack, and being sent back with the message saved his life. He was the last trooper to see Custer and the doomed companies he took with him.
I wonder if Custers men were afraid toward the end
What do you think
I had old west Documentaries ……….they said Crazy Horse attacked Custer from horse back and killed him in a fight……..Will we ever know ?……..
For people wanting to attend in 2025, or later let me tell you about my 2024 experience. What you see in various videos of the reinactment, late 19th Army riding and firing, did take place in 2024. However they lasted 5 or 10 minutes. They were preceded by an hour plus of introduction and history of the northern plains Native American interactions with Europeans and Americans. Kind or boring and not particularly relevant to the battle.
In addition I found the attire of the announcers to be at odds with the spirit of the reinactment. You would think their attire would be similar to or at least pay some homage to northern plains Native American attire in the late 19th. But no. The announcers were attired in jeans, snap western shirts, and cowboy hats., They were were dressed as cowboys. They could have been extras on a John Wayne movie. I guess those were the clothes they wear most days. Well OK you wear what's in your closet. But you would think for the great celebration of their ancestors the announcers attire would be different. I get it that the reinactors of most of the Native Americans are Crows and their ancestors rode with Custer.
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Brevet Major General, his actual rank was Lieutenant Colonel
A lot of myths are being told in this documentary.
How would you guys describe this video like a full sentence
Biased and one-sided
Balanced
Please elaborate.
General Custer meet his match CHIEF SITTING BULL
actually the fighting chiefs were crazy horse and gaul and two moons of the cheyene
@@grioghairmacgrioghair5311 Indeed. Sitting Bull was a leader not a war chef.
Luis Chavez. Sitting Bull ( called Totanka -- buffalo, Yotanka -- that sits down ) was not a real "chief". He was considered a powerful medicine man with powerful visions that mostly came true and was revered for what he saw. He was 45 years old, too old to fight in battle. He told his people to take NOTHING from the dead soldiers or misfortune would befall his people. They did not, however, heed his admonition. The women stripped him naked to humiliate him in the afterlife and pierced his ears to enable him to hear better the grievances of his enemies in the afterlife. Custer was just an arrogant fool who had nothing but contempt for all the plains nations and got what he deserved. I am a white wasichu who can recognize injustice, no matter the age.
He led from the front not the back ......Bentsen and Reno dropped the ball. Not Custer the us government sent him and soldiers there not his idea.
Someone didn't do his homework. First, it's BENTEEN, not Bentsen. Second, Benteen & Reno formed a defensive perimeter which proved to be their salvation. They were as hard-pressed as Custer so they were in no position to rescue anyone. Finally, Custer was basically in exile at the time. He had to beg to reclaim command of the Seventh Cavalry; & once there, he aimed to make it pay off. So, yes, it was his idea.