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To: samadams2000

> Richard Gatling was one of Americas greatest inventors. <

General Custer unfortunately did not share that opinion. He left hos Gatling guns behind when he set out for the Little Big Horn.


20 posted on 06/17/2017 9:06:49 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

A mistake he did not live to regret.


22 posted on 06/17/2017 9:08:35 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Leaning Right

Yeah and hauling those large, slow moving & cumbersome guns over the hills, valleys, and gullies of Southeastern Montana would’ve slowed him down to a walk.

Even if he did have them they still would have all died.


45 posted on 06/17/2017 10:23:13 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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