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yep. The crows still hold a big grudge for the Sioux and Cheyenne . Man, I really want to go tour that place. I’m only 3-4 hours away. It’s worth the drive, I do it several times a year. Maybe we could meet there and have an Indian Taco at the trading post… Some beautiful country on the Crow Rez on the Wyoming border near there. I was talking to crow guide and he advised the Crows still liked and respected Custer. The Crow were scouts for Custer. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and Custer was after the Sioux and Cheyenne, enemies of the Crow…
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This time Custer tried to cheat by using M16's but the Indians switched to expanding broadheads and chewed them apart. The biggest innovation to help Custer would have been a walkie-talkie…
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This time Custer tried to cheat by using M16's but the Indians switched to expanding broadheads and chewed them apart. The biggest innovation to help Custer would have been a walkie-talkie… I’d put my money on heavy artillery, or a few A-10s.
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Leave it to me to be the one with the weird opinion. The Injuns that fateful day were just doin' what anyone does, fight to win. The Army was f...ked before they ever left town. By who you axe? By the dirty politics of the bureaucracy-good old boy crowd of Springfield Armory, insisting on the continued use of an obsolete military weapon and even worse ammunition known to be totally unuseable after ten rounds on a hot day. Sharps, Spencers, Remingtons, Peabodys...exported to Europe by the thousands. A proud day for the Army procurement program and arsenal, 210 blue coated bodies, but by God we saved a lot of money with the trapdoors. That isn’t weird, just misinformed….
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Leave it to me to be the one with the weird opinion. The Injuns that fateful day were just doin' what anyone does, fight to win. The Army was f...ked before they ever left town. By who you axe? By the dirty politics of the bureaucracy-good old boy crowd of Springfield Armory, insisting on the continued use of an obsolete military weapon and even worse ammunition known to be totally unuseable after ten rounds on a hot day. Sharps, Spencers, Remingtons, Peabodys...exported to Europe by the thousands. A proud day for the Army procurement program and arsenal, 210 blue coated bodies, but by God we saved a lot of money with the trapdoors. That isn’t weird, just misinformed…. And idiotic.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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The Chipawah here call the Souix (dog eaters). No love there.lol. Edk
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I would have chose AR’s or drones over walkie-talkies but walkie-talkies would have helped a lot no doubt. Either probably would have won the battle for him.
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You'd think one of these years he'd try a different strategy. Attack without mercy? Surely that would work!
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146th.
Only four years to the 150th.
That’s gonna be a party. 147th, they lost the first year too… Ain’t gonna criticize. Folks was refighting the Alamo every year out front on the plaza until it was realized the little Alamo sprinkles raining down from the inside of the church with the concussion from each cannon blast prob’ly wouldn’t spontaneously regenerate. We were always losing anyhow. We still do get to lose and be massacred at Goliad.
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This time Custer tried to cheat by using M16's but the Indians switched to expanding broadheads and chewed them apart. The biggest innovation to help Custer would have been a walkie-talkie… I’d put my money on heavy artillery, or a few A-10s. Actually Custer himself would have done best with some Kevlar. Osky
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146th.
Only four years to the 150th.
That’s gonna be a party. 147th, they lost the first year too… Ain’t gonna criticize. Folks was refighting the Alamo every year out front on the plaza until it was realized the little Alamo sprinkles raining down from the inside of the church with the concussion from each cannon blast prob’ly wouldn’t spontaneously regenerate. We were always losing anyhow. We still do get to lose and be massacred at Goliad. Hopefully you don’t teach Math, you missed by a battle…
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Leave it to me to be the one with the weird opinion. The Injuns that fateful day were just doin' what anyone does, fight to win. The Army was f...ked before they ever left town. By who you axe? By the dirty politics of the bureaucracy-good old boy crowd of Springfield Armory, insisting on the continued use of an obsolete military weapon and even worse ammunition known to be totally unuseable after ten rounds on a hot day. Sharps, Spencers, Remingtons, Peabodys...exported to Europe by the thousands. A proud day for the Army procurement program and arsenal, 210 blue coated bodies, but by God we saved a lot of money with the trapdoors. That isn’t weird, just misinformed…. And idiotic. DeFlate, (historian, sociologist, arms expert, psychologist, epidemiologist, infectious disease expert, sage, economic advisor, prophet, author of a 100,000 informative and enlightening posts) Thank you for setting me straight. Just think of the mayhem the 139 British soldiers at Rorkes Drift could have caused the 4,500 Zulu ....had they only been armed with trapdoors instead of those pathetic Martini-Henry's (modified Peabody 1866).
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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1876 +150 = 2026
2026 - 2022 = 4
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1876 +150 =2026 +1 for 1876
2026 - 2022 = 4 Keep trying, you forget to count the first battle of 1876, you need to quit trying, you are and will continue to be wrong with your new math.
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I would have chose AR’s or drones over walkie-talkies but walkie-talkies would have helped a lot no doubt. Either probably would have won the battle for him. Even currently obsolete M1 Garands would have turned the tide of battle. Just Sayin. 
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146th.
Only four years to the 150th.
That’s gonna be a party. 147th, they lost the first year too… Down here on the Little Bighorn, celebrating the 146th anniversary of the Custer battle in Eastern Montana, Custer lost it again.
Maybe next year… Nice time of year for a battle regardless.
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I was there 2 weeks ago. One thing that amazed me was the low numbers of Indians allegedly killed. One would think that soldiers would have taken out at least 1 or 2 warriors each. Unless they dragged the bodies off like the VC and NVA.
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1876 +150 =2026 +1 for 1876
2026 - 2022 = 4 Keep trying, you forget to count the first battle of 1876, you need to quit trying, you are and will continue to be wrong with your new math. Got it, riding in on that fateful day 6/25/1876, Custer says “Look at all those fuggin’ Indians, and it’s only the first anniversary!” When you get there in 2025, don’t unpack the ice chest just yet....
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I was there 2 weeks ago. One thing that amazed me was the low numbers of Indians allegedly killed. One would think that soldiers would have taken out at least 1 or 2 warriors each. Unless they dragged the bodies off like the VC and NVA. Someone posted on the LBH battle awhile back when this subject came up. I can’t remember who but maybe it was Shrapnel. The posters said something to the effect about the military did very little target practice account of the cost, something like 20 rounds a year.. But what he pointed out was the lack of fire control. Literally shooting over their heads with the 45-70’s rainbow tragectory. Maybe it happened like that, maybe it didn’t.
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what Custer should have done the day before the battle was send the Indians at least 6- 8 wagon loads of barrels of whiskey .
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