The other videos are:
VIDEOS: US General in chief Miles on Little Big Horn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6tFXzvKJTc
The Little Big Horn case (I): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeTsG2JpQA
The real story of the battle of the Washita: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4534E1cCLyQ
Custer’s Last Thoughts (Americans stand and fight):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMb3U6CfqA
The Custer legacy, from Gettysburg to Baghdad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmbCWz7Dxg
The 210 heroes of Little Big Horn (Their colors never ran):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFTNymZOcUs
The website: http://www.custerwest.orgm (videos and facts in English)
The Lakota had repeating rifles, not bows and arrows, as in that painting. The Army had single shot rifles and Colt sidearms. They never had a prayer.......
The Indians had repeating rifles from the black market while the military provided Custer with single shots.
Who is gonna win?
Even if he hadn’t alienated his officers so they weren’t ready to go the extra mile for him, and they had rushed in, Custer was in an indefensible place and they would have all died.
He died because of his hubris at underestimating the enemy in both number and determination to fight, at putting his men in a position where they got outflanked, by choosing not to believe in the intelligence he was getting from his scouts, and by splitting his forces which were too few for the situation anyway.
IMHO
Same crap, different day.
Interesting video, but really presents no real “PROOF” of anything other than Benteen didn’t choose to commit suicide.
We have been to this battle field. It is a haunting place.
He gave a poor set of commands to hesitant officers. His was the “Hammer and Anvil” strategy that any American combat officer should now be able to recite in his sleep, but in 1876 the gallop around the plains old Civil War officers were basically left without direction that day. He then proceeded down the ridge with half his men and then dropped units off at nearly each path down to the village reducing them and losing the combat iniative while the Indians rolled them up one by one. The Indians having drove back Reno were then some motivated individuals, it was their day in the sun, I salute them, and I’m an unapologetic American of old stock.