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To: robowombat

Really? No wounded, no American soldiers surrendering?

That is a pretty neat battle when every one of the Americans neatly dies while engaging the enemy.

“At a distance, the stripped bodies of Custer’s men had resembled nothing so much as white boulders. Up close, they were truly ghastly to behold. “The men . . . were . . . scalped and horribly mutilated,” one soldier recalled. “There the bodies lay, mostly naked, and scattered over a field maybe half a mile square.” As Captain Clifford surveyed the battlefield and saw the terrible aftermath of violent death, torture, and mutilation, waves of nausea simmered in his gut: “It is sickening to look at the stripped bodies. Here a hand gone, and here a foot or a head . . . gashes cut in all parts of the body; eyes gouged out, noses and ears cut off, and skulls crushed in.” Another officer recalled that “eyes had been torn from their sockets, and hands . . . and arms, legs, and noses had been wrenched off. Many had their flesh cut in strips the entire length of their bodies, and there were others whose limbs were closely perforated with bullets, showing that the torture had been inflicted while the wretched victims were still alive.”


101 posted on 08/21/2022 12:44:44 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

You know quite well what I was saying. No, no prisoners, wounded soldiers fell into the hands of the Indians and then were tortured to death. In fact the last part of Custer’s people who were killed appear to have dismounted and formed a prone firing line in some broken ground on the nw sided of the battlefield and fought to the last man. All remains were in rough firing line and expended cartridge cases were scattered among the bodies. Wise ass remarks like yours are not appreciated. There are more than enough really stupid posts on this thread as is.


103 posted on 08/21/2022 1:15:26 PM PDT by robowombat (Orth, all y aa)
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