[Jan_Sobieski]

We drove/walked this entire battle in 2010. Custer was a incredible fighting soldier. As most in the military know, the good fighters are not the politically correct ones. How many horses were shot out from under him at Gettysburg?

Anyhow, Custer rode into a hornet’s nest; 10,000 Sioux warriors in a camp stretching 20 miles. He thought he was hitting them in the middle, but it was only the front, giving the rest time to prepare (no element of surprise). When he realized the mistake, he tried to back out and was immediately surrounded by hardened warriors ready to rumble after being driven out of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and the Dakotas. Not only that, they had better Guns than GI Issue!

Had he had proper reconnaissance, he wouldn’t have made this mistake. I believe it was Sun Tzu who said, one spy can be more valuable than thousands of foot soldiers

[ought-six]

“Anyhow, Custer rode into a hornet’s nest; 10,000 Sioux warriors in a camp stretching 20 miles.”

No. The village was about three miles long, spread along the river. There were nowhere near 10,000 Sioux warriors (hell, there were nowhere near 10,000 TOTAL warriors, Sioux and Cheyenne and Arapaho). The best and most accurate measurement of total warriors was around 3,000, which was too many for Custer in any event.