Well your 7th Cavalry was going to attack their camp full of their families - women, children and old people. Would you do any different? The American military was in the middle of a program of genocide that planes Indians so I don't have much in sympathy for them. I grew up 40 miles from that battlefield and went to school with many of the great grandchildren of those fighters so I think I speak with some authority.
Wow, one of those, Americans are being trained to identify with our enemies, even to the murdering of our troops, hatred of our people, and our history.
What kind of planes did the Indians operate?
I recall the alternate history story, “Custer’s Last Jump”.
The 7th were an Air Cavalry, ballon infantry unit attempting a vertical envelopment of the Indian encampment when the unit was interdicted and destroyed by Geronimo leading a flight of mothballed Confederate Air Force biplanes.
And the indians were still rounded up and put on reservations, so what’s your point
When I visited, I took the park bus tour. The guide was a middle-aged Indian woman who casually mentioned that she was Crow. Whether she lived on the reservation or not, I don’t know.
Being my usual bull in the china shop self, I naturally asked if she got any static from Sioux and Cheyenne visitors about the Crow having been allied with the U.S. As you probably know, Custer’s scouts were Crow.
She smiled and said, “All the time, but we don’t shed blood over it anymore, except on the basketball court.”
The battlefield IS on Crow land, so if I wanted to be fussy about it, the 7th Cavalry was assisting the Crow in repelling a hostile raid.
Relative of Custer here. Your paks relatives slaughtered the 7th but according to Sittig Bull, on his authority, they lost the war winning the battle. Slaughter and horrendous acts abound Thursday Ohio from 1780s to about 1815.
Ft. Recovery Ohio is the first sight of Indians wiping out 600 soldiers, 400 volunteers and nearby 300 camp folders. At my Grandmother’s farm I had collected 7 guide on irons, 3 soldiers under the barn, 200+ arrow heads, buttons, flintlock. Grandpa was an Indian and we fed the bones of 3 soldiers and two horse’s to the dogs when I was 7. Dad beat my ass.
“The American military was in the middle of a program of genocide that planes Indians so I don’t have much ...”
What kinds of planes were the Plains Indians using? Fighter-bombers?
Well then, you should know that its Plains Indians not planes indians
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The problem wasn’t primarily the soldiers, it was the corrupt politicians and businessmen who lied to and cheated the Indians.