[diogenes ghost]

"Yeah, he lost a battle against an overwhelming force."

You call him a brilliant tactician....after THAT statement??

Brilliant tacticians do NOT engage overwhelming forces, given the option, and he had MANY options.

Civil War exploits aside, his actions at Little Bighorn were deplorable.

I have walked the ground, and have many books about the battle, including "Crimsoned Prairie" and "A Terrible Glory", and "brilliant tactician" is not a valid descriptive, indeed quite the opposite.

[stormer]

Bad intelligence.