That's nonsensical. Much of the research was done using Lakota and Cheyenne testimony. PS: They were on Crow Land. I'm sure you have never been on the Crow Reservation and discussed it with them, have you? Put that in your Colonizer pipe and smoke it.

The note Martin gave Benteen is at the West point library. All Benteen had to do was read it. The skedaddle meant to hurry to Custer"s defense.

Ah, yes, I get that!

Anybody that’s put boots on the ground there knows. IYKYK

Thank You. The only thing I like more than armored vehicles is aircraft.

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Our cat, "Boy," in classic redneck fashion we put on a leash outside. He enjoys the ruckus I guess. My employees live to tease me about the cat.

I will be in Oshkosh on the 21st, seeking to get some photos, and then on Monday, I will be at the South Pavilion for the full airshow. I believe I have a camping spot on site. In a previous lifetime, I lived in Madtown, so it is always great to get back to Wisconsin.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

There were even Indians themselves that said had Reno continued his initial charge into the village instead of pulling up into skirmish lines, he would have sent the Indians reeling in panic and probably would have won the battle. I liked your other comment about Custer doing the right thing with the information he had at the time. Up until that point in history, no Indian village had ever held their ground against a large scale cavalry charge. Ever.

​@@BezmenovDisciple thanks! I don't think I have enough information to adequately judge if calling off the charge was a good call or not, you have to consider that this is the largest planes Indian camp ever of all time and Reno's men got repelled and flanked in their skirmish lines pretty quickly - so charging in might have been an even deadlier mistake than not. On people's testimony, I wouldn't trust retrospective opinion's like that - there's conflicting claims on who or what killed custer, or who shot him when I'm pretty sure that the Indians only found out they defeated Custer way after the battle was over - the fame and significance of the battle meant that a lot of people had a lot to say about it afterwards but much of it might have been imagined or outright false. I think, from the information I have, Reno canceling the charge might not have been his worst decision, him panicking in the woods, fleeing or 'charging' out of the woods to a nearby river crossing and narrow hill face where the indians had a good shot at them, leaving many of his men to hide in the woods to either get killed or run back up to reno hill on their own, then just doing nothing on Reno hill, not making any attempts to contact Custer or help him when Benteen arrived and pretty much being drunk the whole time are just massively egregious failures of command. Reno was in a extremely tough situation and I don't think he was the guy for it, I think he left the battlefield in the worst way and had he stayed in the woods longer or if he had an organized retreat into another skirmishing line and kept fighting the Indians, the Indians wouldn't have swung around so quickly to overwhelm Custer and Custer and his men might have survived - in that scenario too Benteen would reinforce Reno's battle pretty much at the same time as Custer started his battle. So, Reno fleeing the battle and crossing the river near the Indians to climb up Reno hill where the Indians could shoot them easily caused the most deaths of his men, this disorderly retreat concluded as soon as Custers battle started allowing the Indians fighting Reno to swing back up north and envelop Custers men pretty much dooming them.

@@artembiyun423 Oh I agree with everything you said. 100%. I just thought I’d add that interesting anecdote that came from Indian sources. I think in hindsight, if Custer HAD to engage in battle, his most likely path to victory would have been to keep the command altogether and charged straight in (like Reno did but with the entire regiment), rather than try the pincer maneuver. Of course, the reason he didn’t makes perfect sense to me as well, them being most afraid of the Indians scattering to the wind.

@@BezmenovDisciple yeah it's just bad circumstances, Custer went north expecting to get to the northern part of the settlement but ended up in the middle of it, he split his command to go north again but was met with native warriors again. The strategy was to capture Indians fleeing and end the battle by taking hostages, which was a sound strategy previously and still looked like a valid strategy with the information that Custer had at hand. If they didn't encounter those three groups of Indians previously, compelling Custer to rush to take the village by surprise I think they would have gotten better information and the battle would have gone completely differently. And honestly, yeah if Reno charged in it could have caused a big panic that could've made Custer's plan to capture hostages work. And yeah totally, hypothetically if their command was together they would have won, we have to remember too that the Indians didn't have centralized command structures or army drills or any of that, the US army would outmatch them pretty handily in most cases. But I think that's why this battle is so fascinating, it's like the Titanic or the Franklin expedition and just that mystery of all those souls lost and having to piece it all together but never quite being able to because everyone that was there died. It's just that their goal was to get the Indians to surrender and march back to their reservations, so that I think was one of the big reasons that compelled Custer to that fatal strategy