Posted on 06/25/2004 7:09:26 AM PDT by ijcr
cavalry ping
BTTT
I visited the battle site many years ago,
and have to say it was erie to stand on those hills and hear the wind, you could almost hear gunshots and cries.
Spooky.
Your response is the internet version of "Na, na, na, na I'm Not Listening!" more at home in a pre school than here.
Please don't bother me again, thanks.
"Custer's commanding officer, General Terry, offered him the use of two of the deadliest weapons invented in the 19th Century, he refused them, and told Gen. Terry that the 7th Cavalry could do the job alone. So he never took the machine guns he was offered. (Colt's patent Gatling guns). Had he taken them, one wonders what the outcome would have been."
Yep. You know, the delay Custer would have realized, if he had taken the gatlining guns, and the artillery, might have slowed him down enough the battle might never have been fought.
Lot of things to consider beyond the raw fire power on that one.
Yeah. I'm not a Siouian speaker so I guess I have to take his word for it. But he grew up around the language and over the years has taught me a thing or two about it, along with a bit about interpreting winter counts (similar to pictographs painted on elk, deer, or bison skins, they were used to remember the significant points of the previous year. The Native American typically created them during the winter months [hence winter count], at least here in Dakota). I suppose to trace the etymology of the word one could search for the first recorded traces of it. That'd take the researcher to Jesuit manuscripts — at least that seems a logical place where I'd begin searching.
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