148 Years Ago Today, The Battle of the Greasy Grass was fought, and lasted for...... ''as long as it takes a Hungry Man to Eat his Dinner''

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For all you Palefaces out there, that would be the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where an incompetent George Armstrong Custer got his ass kicked along with 268 of his Soldiers, killed, at the hands of 1,200 Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Braves.

Custer ran into superior numbers.
Custer ran into superior fire power.
Custer ran into a superior plan of action.
Custer ran into fresh Braves and horses, while Custer had neither.
Custer split his command up,,,,,twice.
Custer ran into a trap set for him perfectly.

Custer had been under intense criticism from previous actions and felt this battle would restore his name. Many say that is what led to his reckless decisions, which there were many.

Custer massacred women and children years before at the Battle of the Washita in Oklahoma, where he used the same terrorist tactics.
As a side note, Custer was just minutes away from being completely annihilated in that battle too, but escaped just in time.


Indian accounts say that Custer was shot out of his saddle while riding down Medicine Tail Coolee, possibly in the river itself, and then dragged up to Last Stand Hill. Maybe alive, maybe already dead. There were many different accounts.




Cheyenne Chief 2 Moons said the battle lasted as long as it took a hungry man to eat his dinner.

While Custer's plan was to take women and children hostage at the North end of the camp, while Reno drew their Braves' attention away at the South end of the camp, it completely backfired. Yep, another incompetent decision from Custer. Without having any understanding of the massive numbers he was up against, he rode right into the middle of the Indian camp, thinking it was the very North end of the camp.
Oops....Big Mistake.


It is also said that Buffalo Calf Raod Woman was the person who killed Custer.
A week earlier, she rode into battle and saved her brother at the Battle of the Rosebud





In just a few minutes, it was over.
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While this was a great victory for the Plains Indians, it marked the end, as the U.S. Government massively increased it's committment to destroy the American Indian, and fianlly did so years later.



Thank You for your attention to this matter.

Carry On



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Many questions still remain





Now you know
 
Can’t speak for the rest, but the Lakota Sioux still lost. Rosebud and Pine Ridge are the closest things you’ll find to a third world country in the US. East St Louis is nice compared to those two reservations
 
Custer was a notoriously vain and reckless tactician. He was courtmartialed twice before Big Horn. Aside from doing a lot of self-inflicted damage there was also poor coordination from supporting forces (Ex. Capt. Benteen). Sad day because a lot of lives were lost unnecessarily.

Indians won the battle but lost the war and quite frankly continue losing with the deplorable conditions they live in
 
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no love lost here for Custer. He & his Calvary massacred Native American women and children. I kind of wish they would’ve strung him up by his balls for a couple of days before they killed him, but I guess they wanted to wash their hands of the white devil, and be done with it
 
BadMotoWeazal said:
no love lost here for Custer. He & his Calvary massacred Native American women and children. I kind of wish they would’ve strung him up by his balls for a couple of days before they killed him, but I guess they wanted to wash their hands of the white devil, and be done with it
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Not likely we will ever know how it ended for him. There are some historians who claim that the Sioux were not able to identify him during the battle, others that he was tortured before being killed, and some that claim his body was not mutilated out of respect. However, there seems to be a consensus that they some form of mutilation to his ears "so that he would listen" in the next life.
 
Custer had a lot of relatives with him.

''Among the 268 dead were Custer’s nephew Autie Reed, his brother-in-law James Calhoun, his younger brother Tom and his youngest brother, Boston.''

 
I was reading a few weeks ago about the Comanches and their fights with the Texas Rangers. There was another army commander whose name escapes me (and everyone else), but he basically got into the same predicament as Custer and managed to extract himself and his troops. This was earlier than Bighorn. He died insane years later, but was arguably the best "indian fighter" the west ever knew, because he learned from his mistakes and took lessons from his enemies.

He's unknown for his successes, like Custer is known for his failures. His name will come to me eventually. Mcsomething.
 
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