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To: fewz

I enjoyed the YoutTube video. I often wonder how much truth there is in history especially when it come to cause and effect or the reported reality of battles.


221 posted on 08/04/2008 2:52:38 AM PDT by Cardhu (Be happy, today you will be the youngest you will ever be.)
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To: Cardhu
I often wonder how much truth there is in history especially when it come to cause and effect or the reported reality of battles.

Well, I think the Sioux and Cheyenne were in a better position to write a factual account of what occurred at Little Big-Horn. I think there were some white survivors when St. Clair’s army got wiped out by the Miami Confederacy in Indiana a few decades earlier. As a matter of fact, I think St. Clair himself survived the battle. St. Clair actually lost a lot more men than Custer did but Custer’s lost get’s more recognition in history for some reason. I believe that most of St. Clair’s troops were militia while Custer’s were regulars. Since militias often lost battles with the Ice Age Immigrants, I guess it wasn’t considered as serious as the loss of regulars.

225 posted on 08/04/2008 6:09:29 AM PDT by fewz (Rigorous argument from inapplicable assumptions produces the worldÂ’s most durable nonsense.)
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