To: Yo-Yo
You’re right. They’d have slowed him down so much he’d never have gotten near the Sioux and the Little Bighorn would be just another obscure creek in Montana.
21 posted on
06/25/2011 8:28:30 PM PDT by
balch3
To: balch3
29 posted on
06/25/2011 8:39:45 PM PDT by
Michael.SF.
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To: balch3
"You’re right. They’d have slowed him down so much he’d never have gotten near the Sioux and the Little Bighorn would be just another obscure creek in Montana." He did deliberately leave the gatling guns behind. They also left their sabers behind for the same reason - they were trying to move quickly.
32 posted on
06/25/2011 8:46:42 PM PDT by
Flag_This
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