Still haven’t seen the title of this “book” you wrote.
You come here and make these claims, claims that history itself has debunked over the years, you claim that you wrote a book on it.
Fine, what’s the name of the book?
End story
Benteen and Reno both were marginal officers at best.
The Soldiers themselves were rookies.
They were armed with single shot carbines.
The Indians were armed with repeaters, bows and lances (none of which run out of killing power quickly).
The Indians were veteran warriors.
Custer didn’t listen to his scouts who told him that the village stretched up the valley of the rosebud for almost 5 miles (he insisted he could not see it).
Custer ordered his command split into 3 wings, 1 going off to prevent a suspected escape attempt. This wing also had the supply packs.
Custer, when he discovered his monumental screw up, tried to get Benteen back.
Custer tried to cross the river at what he thought was the North end of the village (it was actually the middle of the village) at Medicine Tail Coulee.
He was subsequently ran up the slope and down the ridge to the spot where his command was wiped out.
Not 2 hours, not 3 hours, not 4 hours, but an hour at the most to an hour and a half.
By the time Benteen regrouped with Reno on Reno hill, Custer’s fight was over. The ONLY thing those 2 officers could do was to dig in and wait for Terry’s column.
It’s good that you are so passionate about history, but your version of the facts is the same version that came out in 1876 and have been subsequently found to be incorrect.
The Reno inquiry that you keep claiming is the end all to the evidence, is/was nothing more than a political show piece to blame someone for that disaster.
Reno’s actions and his name were exonerated back in the 60’s. He is no longer considered by this government, or people who have REALLY studied this battle both on foot (at the battlefield) and in print, to be guilty of anything other than being a marginal officer.
Custer was failed by many things that day. But first and foremost he was failed by his own ignorance of the indian displacement and his estimation of what they would do.
He split his command, he faced a vastly superior force both in fighting spirit and in numbers and he got his ass handed to him on a Northern Cheyenne lance.
For what you wrote, it’s totally untrue. “The men who studied” the battle have since long condemned both Benteen and Reno for betrayal, Robert Utley, Larry Sklenar, Arthur Unger, US general in chief Nelson A Miles and so on.
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 Little Big Horn case (II) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwpHpq-iP0
Nice synapsis. Well put.