Custer had to know he was screwed as soon as he retreated up the ravine. The closure rate of an enemy force is something someone as experienced as Custer can just feel.
Consider the speed of the Indian ponies with riders, how many there were, how many were firing at them and their rate of fire. There is no way the Indian force was not going to be among them in close combat, overwhelming and annihilating them.
All the above is something Custer realized, intuitively.
@HerrCollier No, he's being honest. But he is wrong; without heavy armor the cavaliers would in any case be at a major disadvantage. However, Custer had thrice as many men under his command than is stated.
Custer had to know he was screwed as soon as he retreated up the ravine. The closure rate of an enemy force is something someone as experienced as Custer can just feel.
Consider the speed of the Indian ponies with riders, how many there were, how many were firing at them and their rate of fire. There is no way the Indian force was not going to be among them in close combat, overwhelming and annihilating them.
All the above is something Custer realized, intuitively.
shortist2003 5 days ago
@HerrCollier No, he's being honest. But he is wrong; without heavy armor the cavaliers would in any case be at a major disadvantage. However, Custer had thrice as many men under his command than is stated.
ChristianWarriorUSA 1 month ago
@Napoleontas Actually 750, the documentary even says so.
1Historygenius 1 month ago
@HerrCollier That has been proven time and time again, its not any other type of thinking apart from the historical one.
Napoleontas 1 month ago
@Napoleontas That's just the sound of white supremacist thinking right there, bro. Thumbs down.
HerrCollier 1 month ago
200 hundred against 2000, if the indians didnt had white made rifles they would have been smoked even with that kind that kind of odds
Napoleontas 1 month ago
@Mistermax30 He got shot off his horse, and then he killed himself. yeah he sure kicked ass.
Foilsdown 3 months ago
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
eddyzu1998 3 months ago
Custer, injun ass kicker...
Mistermax30 3 months ago
dont fuck with an indian
HIimjohnnyknoxville1 3 months ago