What Really Happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2023
- In this video, we'll explore the Battle of Little Bighorn, which is known as one of the most famous military defeats in American history.
Did General George Custer doom his entire regiment to defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn? Or was there something else going on behind the scenes? In this video, we'll explore the history behind this famous battle and find out what really happened. You won't believe what we find!
Benteen: "General, if the village is as big as the scouts say it is, don't you think we should keep the command together? We're going to need every man."
Custer: "You have your orders!"
Didn't happen. Benteen was at the Washita with Custer and knew his tactics. You divide and maneuver on offense to increase the enemy's lines of expectation so he can't concentrate at the point of your attack.
Yes the brave & fearless Custer surrounded himself with Indian woman & children so he could slither his way out of another bungle, the Indian braves could
not fire at or attack without endangering their families. Custer wore a red kerchief, I think a yellow one would have been a more fitting colour.@@31terikennedy
@@aussiedrifterWrong. Custer took 50/60 captives back to the reservation as further incentive for the others to return. (what was he supposed to do, leave them on the battlefield? How were the Indians supposed to pursue Custer? He destroyed or captured 1,100 of their horses. That was the whole point of the Washita attack: to neutralize Indian mobility so they couldn't raid settlements. Your knowledge of American history sucks.
@@31terikennedyPrivate Charles Windolph testified that Benteen did question the wisdom of Custer’s decision to split the troops during the discussion of the size of the village.
You divide and maneuver on offense to increase the enemy's lines of expectation so he can't concentrate at the point of your attack. Custer used a four prong attack that went in simultaneously at the Washita. Benteen was at the Washita with Custer. Benteen knew Custer's tactics. What's problematic for Benteen is Weir at the Washita too and was with Benteen on movement to the left. Weir knew Benteen was not obeying his orders. @@jaynesager3049
This is stunning! Germonio and a small number of warriors showed up from Arizona! Other than that news, I didn't see anything we already didn't know.
Yep, it looked like Geronimo was thinking "how did I get here".
Fake News.
Didn't know Geronimo and the Apaches were at the Little Big Horn. I'll be Dawg!!!
I had a laugh when Geronimo and some Apaches show up in a couple photos at 5:31.
Indian fighting : If you take prisoners the fighting stops and talks begin. Was Custer trying to strike quickly and take hostages was that why he split his command, something he had done successfully before . Only this time he could not secure hostages and the fighting escalated to disaster. Custer believed two other army groups were coming. He did not know of the defeat at Rosebud, one wing of the three prong encirclement campaign.
When the Indians left the reservation they did so to follow the warrior way of raiding. The most likely route they would take would be to the south where the settlements were. Crook was there to block them. Crook didn't pursue because the Indians would have scattered and the Army them to concentrate, which they did.
Custer era um covarde e só atacava aldeias com velhos, mulheres e crianças, quando os guerreiros estavam caçando. Touro Sentado montou uma armadilha para ele. Sou contra a expressão "guerras indígenas". Só muito tempo depois os indígenas tiveram acesso a armas de fogo. Antes disso eram arco e flecha contra armas de fogo. Significativo o livro "Enterrem meu coração na curva do Rio", de Dee Brown, sobre o genocídio dos indígenas norte americanos. A "conquista do Oeste" foi um massacre dos ancestrais donos das terras para roubá-las. Famosa é esta sábia frase: ” Fizeram-nos muitas promessas, mais do que me posso lembrar, mas eles nunca as cumpriram, menos uma: prometeram tomar nossa terra e a tomaram. ” Nuvem Vermelha, dos Sioux Oglala Teton
Não é bonito mentir para mascarar esta grande derrota e o fracasso de Custer.
Nice. Some drawigns on a map following your troop movement description would help.
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When you think you've lost the element of surprise the last thing you should do is split your command. Splitting it in four parts was suicidal. The only chance they had was in sticking together on some high ground.
Custer had no real information on Warrior numbers when he split his command, the best Intelligence the US Commanders had said 800-1500 Warriors, tops. The Reality was, there were many more than that and they were better armed than thought.
@@pimpompoom93726...Custer had a decent idea of how many warriors there were. After all, the 7th had been following the village's trail for weeks and saw it become progressively larger so he knew there were a lot of Indians there. The fact that Terry's and Gibbon's columns joined together suggests that the cavalry knew they were facing a large force since the columns were intended to operate independently. Most historians put the total size of the village at around 9,000 inhabitants which included 1,800-2,000 warriors. That would have been a manageable number for the 7th since the warriors fought as individuals or in small groups with no real command structure. Custer didn't dismiss his scout's observations. At the Crow's Nest he simply said he didn't see a big pony herd, not that there wasn't one. When the scout said there were too many warriors Custer employed a technique he'd used in the past by saying he thought they could handle them and if the scouts were afraid they could leave. Indians were far more hesitant to take casualties than the Army was. Warriors typically broke off a fight when they started taking losses. That's what really saved Crook at the Rosebud. If the warriors had an organized C&C structure and been willing to take heavy casualties they could have wiped Crook out. The same goes for the Reno-Benteen defense position. The warriors had enough numerical superiority to launch a diversionary attack from across the river while attacking Reno's flanks. But it would have resulted in heavy casualties for the warriors and that's not their style of warfare.
It would be nice if you were a little more accurate with your photos. I didn't know that Geronimo was a participant in this battle, or that sabres were used on last stand hill as one of your photos portrayed!
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George Armstrong Custer and the 7th cavalry did not carry any swords in to Battle of The Little Bighorn! They fealt the sabers would make too much noise and give away their positions and would be a problem and make movement difficult!
During the Battle at Little Bighorn in 1876, the 7th Cavalry troopers under George Custer were armed with the Springfield trapdoor carbine Model 1873 and the Colt Single Action Army revolver Model 1873. Custer carried a Remington .50-caliber sporting rifle with octagonal barrel and two revolvers that were not standard issue - possibly Webley British, double-action, white-handled revolvers. It has long been believed that Custer was armed with a pair of Webley RIC revolvers chambered in .442 caliber.
George Armstrong Custer cut his hair just before the battle, he would have his hair long when he was home, but cut it while on military campaign because he did not like having to deal with the dirt that would get in his hair, he fealt short hair was better while on marches!
one of the Indian eyewitness of Battle Little Bighorn named White Cow Bull said he short a soldier wearing buckskin off who was riding a sorel horse with four white socks!
Godfrey -- together with the accounts of suviors Peter Thompson and the Arikara scout Soldier -- provide the best information on what Custer wore. It turns out there were six or more officers in buckskin that fateful day, but George A. Custer was the only one riding a sorel horse with four white socks.
There is evidence George Armstrong Custer was killed early in the battle, and that one reason everything fell apart so fast that day!
Lol
If you don't tell anyone else what the plan is it's going to fall apart if you're killed!
For me that's enough to condemn Custer.
When the soldiers ran low on ammo, and they were dying from gun shot wounds and arrows. the American Indians closing in to finish them off, to kill the already dying survivors with war clubs etc. I wonder if they regretted their decision to listen to Custer and not carry their sabers. This was a time when firearm reliability and ammo capacity was poor. There’s a reason Civil War soldiers carried Sabers, things rarely go as planned and when it gets hairy, up close and personal you never wanna find yourself holding an empty rifle and an empty revolver.
There's no evidence that Custer was killed at the Medicine Tail ford early in the battle. There are reports from some warriors that someone resembling an officer was shot there but nothing to indicate that it was Custer. In fact, the accounts suggest it was not Custer. A small detachment was assigned to probe the ford. If Custer had been leading the charge everyone else would have been following him. The most likely reason Custer's battalion didn't force their way into the village is because they could see it was breaking up and there were no hostages to capture. Archeological evidence suggests that Custer continued further north to find another ford and potential hostages while Keogh acted as the rear guard awaiting Benteen's arrival. In any event, it would have made no sense to drag Custer's body along during a running firefight only to place it on top of several dead bodies on Last Stand Hill. And, yes, Tom Custer was part of the wing but if his brother was killed command would have fallen to Keogh or Yates as senior officer. The 7th was a military unit, not a bunch of guys out for a Sunday ride.
They didn't turn down sabers, except for parade purposes sabers were not issued anymore by then.
Read "Custer Vindicated." Good book.
I will check it out 👍
i like de vidio
What happened? Custer got his arse kicked! That's what happened. 😳
Mispronounced names and I didn't know Geronimo and his Apaches were at the Little Bighorn. You need to screen your vids before publishing.
Just shows most dummies do not
Know their history.
It showed the reason he was the bottom of the class at West point
What a useless comment. He knew he was facing a large village. The Crows believed he was discovered and pushed to battle a day early. His biggest error was sending Beenteen off.
The area or Coulee that Custer tried to cross the river it was impossible. Water was to deep from a beaver damn up the way . Where was crook ? Or Terry . He used standard West Point attack there in kansas attack on Indian as he was sitting up to do here - Pinochet . Had broke camp in the night 25 miles away . He had his 13th ( ? Other report says 11 ) horse shot from under him since Civil war began .
Nope ponies had already been driven across , no beaver dam , and it was in the centre of the little big horn, where the leading rider, Custer?*, was shot from the saddle stopping the impetus of the attack…
* Pretty Shield to Walter Camp…
Fairly obvious without Custer in command , and with surprise lost, the command fractured into two battalions under Yates and Keogh. Instead of remaining together the companies separated . This allowed the combined forces of Sioux and Cheyenne to annihilate the 212 men..
All backed up by current archaeological research.
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Point the way to reading . Bob Boze painted a different picture . And others . Always open to further discussions.
I've walked and driven the vast stretch of battlefield 3 times over the years . So you can go into understanding detail if you like .
@@Gene-kl1br I’ve been there too Gene. Each time amazed at the terrain and how easy it would have been for the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors to use the terrain to sneak up on the dismounted troopers.
There’s not one single spot on the field where the five companies could have come together.
As a historian and tactician I still stand with the latest theory that Custer was either killed outright or mortally wounded at the ford. This partially explains why the command fractured , without apparent leadership, into two battalions , separated, and failed to use the only battle element available to them - surprise.
Have a great New Year in 2024.
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Not sure you can count the women old men and children as part of the combatants...the cavalry probably faced no more than 12 to 1500 warriors..had the troops been kept together then the outcome may well have been different
There were significantly more Warriors than 1200-1500, Indian reports estimate up to 5000-but those are probably exaggerated. Most estimates today put it at 2500-3000 Warriors, not counting non-combatants.
Underestimated the Native Americans
Hi listen to it until you show Geronimo and the band of Apaches😂
I do my best with the resources I have. 🎅
AI generated Custer.
That is correct.
Can't stand the robot voice. The video is good, but I just don't understand not having a human read the dialogue.
What happened? Custer got his ass whooped cuz he was a fool.
I agree...Custer was doomed at the LBH because of
Battle of Rosebud's outcome June17th a week prior. Gen Cook got whipped by Crazy Horse there, was so embarrassed went hunting for a week & never alerted Custer of the New Indian tactics in fighting- in other words "They weren't running away". In fact if it weren't for Cook's Indian allies..the Crow,Shoshone,Pauite saving his butt- The Rosebud's battle would have been a prior Massacre to Custer's.
The Rosebud was Crook blocking the Indians from raiding south.
What really happened was Custer's stupidity finally caught up with him! And he got 262 People including three family members killed.
yes, of course, certainly, without question.
No maps 😂
Sorry 😳
Custer was an arrogant fool.
Listen to your scouts. Read your orders till you're sure you know what they mean..
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@@riddleinhistory1371 bingo!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy turkey or whatever......
Terry's orders are readily available online. Terry was an attorney by trainings and while the orders will never be taught at West Point they should be taught to first year law students as a perfect example of how to CYA. Terry knew exactly what he was doing when he cut Custer loose. That was why Terry fought so hard to have Custer reinstated for the campaign. Custer was aggressive. He attacked. As the 7th passed in review before leaving Terry's column Col. Gibbon called out to Custer to save some Indians for them. Custer replied, "You know I won't" and they all had a good laugh. Including Terry. Here is the opening of Terry's orders. He goes on to outline the general plan of waiting for Terry and Gibbon to get in place to support the 7th but gives Custer carte blanche to do as he sees fit. Those orders are there for Terry's benefit.
"Headquarters of the Department of Dakota (In the Field)
Camp at Mouth of Rosebud River, Montana Territory June 22nd, 1876
Lieutenant-Colonel Custer,
7th Calvary
Colonel: The Brigadier-General Commanding directs that, as soon as your regiment can be made ready for the march, you will proceed up the Rosebud in pursuit of the Indians whose trail was discovered by Major Reno a few days since. It is, impossible to give you any definite instructions in regard to this movement, and were it not impossible to do so the Department Commander places too much confidence in your zeal, energy, and ability to wish to impose upon you precise orders which might hamper your action when nearly in contact with the enemy. He will, however, indicate to you his own views of what your action should be, and he desires that you should conform to them unless you shall see sufficient reason for departing from them..."
As for ignoring the scouts too many people don't put Custer's actions at the Crow's Nest in context and draw the faulty conclusion that he ignored his scouts. When the scouts told him there was a huge pony herd like thousands of worms crawling in the grass Custer said he didn't see them, not that there was no pony herd. Custer checked with Lt. Varnum, chief of scouts, who said he hadn't seen the herd either earlier when he was up there with the scouts. Terry's column had been following the village's trail for weeks and saw it become progressively larger. When the War Department sent three columns into the field that summer they estimated there would be 800-1,500 warriors. Gibbon's column had had substantial contact before meeting Terry's column. The fact that Terry absorbed Gibbon's command, even though the War Department plan was for the columns to act separately, suggests they knew there was a large force of warriors. Custer knew there were a lot of Indians in the area. He didn't dismiss the scouts out of hand. As for ignoring the scouts' warnings there were too many warriors to fight you need to understand how the Indians viewed battles. They were very wary of taking casualties, whereas the cavalry viewed casualties as a necessary cost of doing business. Custer brought three regimental surgeons along. He was expecting casualties. Had the warriors who attacked Crook on the Rosebud been willing to take casualties they could have pressed their advantage and decimated Crook's command. Instead, they withdrew. So the scouts' warnings there were too many to fight must be viewed from that perspective. Custer told them the 7th could get through them in a day and if they were afraid they could leave. That was a tactic Custer had used on scouts in the past to shame them into remaining because of their macho warrior culture. And actually, had not Reno and Benteen sat out the fight Custer's plan had a good chance of success. If Reno had pressed his attack or at least maintained his position in the timber Custer would have faced far fewer warriors. If Benteen had responded with urgency instead of pouting and slow walking his approach that would have drawn warriors off of Custer. But they didn't. Reno panicked and ran and Benteen took his time because his battalion had heard the gunfire from Reno's valley fight and when it faded away he thought the battle was over and they'd won. Benteen initially thought he was being called to do resupply and the clean up scut work. By the time he realized the battle was going poorly it was too late to do much more than cover his own rear. To some degree it wouldn't have mattered how many warriors the 7th faced if the entire regiment had remained engaged because the warriors fought as individuals or small groups and not with an organized command structure. Any one of the three battalions could have captured enough hostages to force the warriors to surrender.
@@MJ-we9vu I've read them in grahams books and always found them shall I say a tad"loose" to give to Custer. I'm only about forty minutes from west point and visit Custer's grave pretty much anytime i go. His neighbors include Buford Win Scott McKenzie and others. I wish their museum would mount a full display on Custer. They have a fringed coat some arrows and Martins message though I'm not sure it's original. Also in the same display case is Gerinimos Yellow Boy 66. You can bet he didn't buy it at Dick's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A suicide by a right handed Geo.Custer couldn't be to the left temple...only 1 individual that day had the authority to halt the attack midstream crossing littlebighorn river to attack Indian encampment. Gut shot and mortally wounded George was lifted from river and and a Pell mello retreat to laststandhill...Tom mutilated because he obviously had assumed command and met the wrath of Indians...George lay semi consience and Tom had given orders to shoot him if end was near
Custer didn't commit suicide. The probe of the Medicine Tail ford was likely exploratory. The ford was lightly defended but more importantly, the village beyond was deserted. Can't capture hostages if there's nobody there. Custer's wound was to the chest, not the gut and would have resulted in death within minutes if not immediately. Custer wasn't shot at the ford, placed on a horse and carried along for two miles during a running firefight only to be placed on top of dead bodies on Last Stand Hill. Tom Custer didn't take command. Yates was senior in that wing of the battalion and Keogh was senior over Yates. This wasn't a Custer family picnic. It was a US military operation and the chain of command would have been observed.
Lieutenant Colonel Custer commited suicide, having received a gunshot wound in the left upper chest & realising the wound could be fatal he chose suicide rather than
face a brutal & savage end delivered by an Indian Brave. He commited suicide with his sidearm to the left temple, Unfortunately he made one miscalculation to many & he along
with 5 companies paid the ultimate price.
Custer's rank at the time of his suicide & Effective from September 1866 was to a lieutenant colonel, Custer, whose regular army rank was captain received the promotion prior
to joining the (7)C
Thank you very much for your informative input! 👍
Had custer shot himself it would be in right temple..he was shot in left with no powderburn
And his corpse wasn't as disfigured as Toms who fought dearly as commander..indians thought suicide bad medicine
George likely mortally wounded at river crossing earlier
That's only speculation, nobody knows how Custer ultimately met his end. He may have been killed at Medicine Tail Coulee early in the battle. Indian reports indicate Custer was shot there, whether fatal or not we don't know.
Its speculation but lightly that either he shot himself or one of the troopers or his brother Tom shot him in the Temple. However we will never know for sure what happened in the end.
@@williamh3823 Tom Custer's body was massively mutilated, his skull was essentially beaten flat, probably by a war club. Why he 'merited' this especially brutal treatment is anybody's guess. It was known that after resistance ended, the squaws wandered among the troopers bodies and dispatched those who were only wounded or showed any signs of life.
You should have someone who can pronounce the words correctly. Never did Answer the question. Duh, duh
Sorry, I do my best.
I've never understood why Custer is so vilified. Custer was a soldier. Soldiers follow orders. He didn't pursue Indians for sport -- he pursued them because he was ordered to. He probably much preferred to be in Garrison with his wife than riding trackless plains looking for the Indians that Sherman and Grant had ordered him to find.
Agree with you!
Custer didn
Custer did NOT follow orders, he was "ordered" to contain the indians not to engage them
Most folks just don’t do enough research . It’s easy to blame Custer if they don’t understand the 1876 campaign strategy devised by politicians and Generals .
Custer was blind to numbers and the fact they had so many repeaters yet he should not have been, he was never informed of the fight on the Rosebud and for that Crook must take the blame there was ample time to inform him, I agree he was not the fool todays commentators make out but in this case he was set up by the politicians.
what did happened? Custer thought to find women and children in the village, unfortunately for him he did find warriors and he (Custer the hero) got what he deserved
Custer WAS a hero.
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custer was a serial rapist@@4thamendment237
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Yes, he had in the past got the women and children first so to control. This time, the little big man ( narcissist) fu.ked up and killed himself and he killed his men because of his arrogance.
If you want to know what really happened, why then isn't anyone talking to the Indigenous Tribes involved??? Custer was a murderous coward seeking fame, and it was his ego and arrogance that insighted this battle and he got what is ask for. My question is why do "we" still hold him in such high regard???
@@MohamdLajdel and that is why they call it his story AKA history
Custer was no coward, even the Sioux and Cheyenne acknowledge that. You're emoting and not thinking.
each their own brother@@pimpompoom93726
Custer got what he wanted and deserved what he got ,he was known to only attack tribes without warriors being around at the time ,he slaughtered elders,women and children when ever he got the chance. History should be told by the Natives not the ones who cowardly took the land claiming ownership, Custer thought Greasy Grass was a cake walk .
Thank you very much for your feedback
You clearly don't know what you're talking about and/or have an agenda.
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