"They" should read a history book w/ regards to medical aspects. Custer was shot in the chest and the head, but basically only bled from the chest wound, so the head wound was postmortem. Best scholarship shows he was shot early in the battle while crossing the creek towards the indian encampment (by White Cow Bull) and was carried up the hill (to the scene of final fighting) by his troops, mortally wounded. .
i served in the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry [formerly Cavalry] in Vietnam. The grandson of one of the Cheyenne who fought in this battle served with me. The grandfather was Night Killer or Kills at Night. The grandson was Gary medicine Bird. Kills at Night fought to avenge his mother's death at Sand Creek, and lived to be over 100 years old.--Tom Reilly
“We’re running out of ammunition, General.” “RIGHT!” Mulligan-as-Custer’s reaction to that kills me every time. It’s like, you ever have one of those days? 😂
This one film, changed a lot of minds about the Little Big Horn... Previously, it had been a National tragedy, Memorialized as such in film. Fort Apache. They Died with their Boots on. But after this... (Side Note: GarryOwen makes me wanna fight people..)
Lieutenant-Colonel Custer graduated from West Point 34th out of a class of 34. He was court-martialled in 1867 for disobeying orders,treating his men cruelly and abandoning two of them to the Indians.Reinstated the following year,he massacred 103 Cheyenne (including women and children) and earned from the Indians the epithet "Squaw-killer" (source : The Guiness Book of military Blunders). Custer was killed at Little Big Horn after splitting up his small force and attacking overwhelming odds.
I am a man of the western United States. I have a little Scottish, Welsh, and Irish in my bloodlines, as well as German. I agree with you wholeheartedly, Eellenne . . . . . . basically, Custer had it coming.
It's pure fiction but it still works. It was an anti-war movie especially against the backdrop of the Mi Lai massacre in Vietnam. The Calley-Custer analogy.
Very insightful. I love Casablanca but I didn't see it in the backdrop of Hitler going from victory to victory in Europe..there's a frisson that's always missing.
@dredandmrbears Contrary to the popular legend the 7th Calvary lost about half of it's men. Custer split the unit into three columns, one under his direct command, one under Reno and one under Bentine which stayed behind to guard the baggage train. Only the collumn under Custer's direct command was wiped out, the other two were mauled but survived and were blamed for the disaster even though Custer was cut off and any attempt to break through the Indian lines would've been a suicide mission
@@w1pa123 In war, the prize for not being a fuckup is a higher likelihood of going home. As for Custer, he got to say goodbye to his brothers and his command.
Custer may have shown very poor judgment at the Little Big Horn, but he wasn't a raving maniac, either. This scene is more a depiction of late-sixties anti-war sensibilities than it is an accurate decription of what happened that day.
You have to realize he was a man of his times. Life was cruel back then. Both sides committed atrocities. Custer was no Chivington, who truly was a butcher. And this was war. You do not murder in war, you kill!
It sucked. Propaganda piece for the leftist elite and, oddly enough, the Sioux. Knew that from the line "Them Pawnee was always sucking up to the white man"- Truth is, the Sioux were doing their level best to exterminate the Pawnee from the face of the earth every last man woman and child, at the same time as they are whining about the whites being mean to them. Sioux also took the land of the Pawnee- they were originally from Minnesota, chased out of there by other tribes but had more guns because they'd been trading with the whites, so they used that advantage to slaughter all the Pawnee and Crow they could find and take their land.
It's a prime example that you can win a battle but loose a war, after Little Bighorn the gloves were off and what is now known as the Souix Wars exploded across the west and we all know where and how the wars ended: Wounded Knee. A battle that never should've happened triggered a war that never should've happened a war that ended in a massacre that never should've happened
Derek Bates No Derek, its not. The Little Bighorn Battlefield is located at the Crow Indian Reservation 756 Battlefield Tour Road, Crow Agency, Mt 59022 That is its official address. Go look at a map please. Montana territory was created in 1864.
@OAKLANDCHICANOS14 warrior my ass! You think these men were cowards? Many were civil war vets. They walked and rode into thousands of musketts and artillery in open fields. Sure, they needed native americans as trackers, but that doesn't make them poor warriors or weak.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” - Sun Tzu
what we do know that it was a running battle and the bodies were strewn over quite an area - and it went on for about two hours what a shame that a really great film has never been made about this battle - inc Reno and Benteen
The terrain played a role, at Thermopoyle the Greeks knew the pass was narrow enough that the Persans would be unable to bring the full might of their army to bare, and the longer they could hold the pass the more time the others had to mobilize. At the Little Bighorn the collumn with Custer was completely exposed and the Native Americans could bring the full might of their army into the battle, Reno and Bentein faired better because they had some cover
Little Bighorn is one of those events where it's diffiult to seperate fact from fiction the truth about what happened that day more then likely lies somewhere in the middle since Reno's soldiers, Bentine's soldiers and the Native Americans were never allowed to tell their stories while veterans of the battle were still alive out of some misplaced belief that it would dishonor the men who were killed in the battle
Not quite. Custer’s forces from the last stand battle were only 215. The total number of the 7th Cav in the area was 610. Custer had broken them up into 4 separate units (splitting his forces). The number of the Indians in the area was est. at 11,000. The number of warriors who defeated Custer was estimated to have been 3000. Hence the reason the battle was short. Under 20 minutes by some eye witnesses.
From what I recall of the movie, I don't remember it ever making the claim that it was a documentary about the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It simply was a fictional tale that used people and the time period for its story line. If a detective story is set in the suburbs of Denver, but the film is shot in Colorado Springs, that doesn't make it a worthless movie. As a history major, I found it to be very entertaining with more than a few extremely cute skits. To me, this is Dustin Hoffman's best role by far. He carried this movie completely.
266 troopers against 2000+ battle hardened Lakota and Chyanne Warriors in the open how did you think the battle would end? You know why the Greeks were able to hold the Persans off for 3 days at Thermopyle, they knew the pass was too narrow for the Persans to bring the full might of their army to bare. At the Little Bighorn there was no cover, no protection, the Native Americans could bring their entire army into the fray
x Heystraw ,, Arthur Penn is the art director of the movie Almost if i dont wrong this is one of the final scene of " Little Big Man " (1970) with Dustin Hoffman
You know, Custer was extremely full of himself but this clip from that movie i saw as a kid, is way over the top. I wouldn't want my kids to see this because this is not what really happened.
Dude--you are really missing something here. The entire film is a TALL TALE told by the character Jack Crabb (Hoffman) who claims he is "120 years old" and "survived the battle of Little Big Horn" The movie is a COMEDY and the main character is portrayed as basically a liar. This is from the film's original poster: "Either The Most Neglected Hero In History Or A LIAR Of Insane Proportion!" ...so just lighten up and enjoy.
Crook should have been courtmartialed for his actions (or lack of) after Rosebud. Whatever the Army expected to find at LBH they found it with one third of their striking power out of the fight!
I wish they would make a movie about the Little Bighorn that was neutral something like: a lowly private in the 7th Calvary, who dreams of one day owning a small farm in South Dakota, suddenly strikes up a friendship with a Lakota prisoner, and both come to see men where all others had only seen monsters, as the 7th and Lakota confront their destinies, the two friends find themselves on opposite sides, torn between their friendship and their shared belief in duty, honor and loyalty
@BobJim1995 First of all Benteen and Reno were 7th Calvarly as well, in total at the time of the battle the 7th Calvary numbered around 700 Officers, Troopers, and Scouts and of that 268 were killed in the battle and a further 55 wounded as for Reno and Benteen they were cut off from Custer and were engaged in their own battles or guarding the supply train, the only thing Benteen and Reno could've done was send their collumns on what ammounted to a suicide mission.
@cheyenneandlakota They weren't always mounted during the march, and the march was from North Dakota to the battlefield, I've riden horses before and the longer you're mounted and the faster you're moving the more of a toll riding takes on you physically, especally on your back, also in the case of the 7th factor in they were also contending with the summer heat
The more I watch this scene, the more I realize it's also a great satire on the climatic battle of "They Died with Their Boots On." The entire scene is a duplicate of the cavalry charge and eventual battle from that movie.
Well for one thing, many of the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho were well armed with repeating rifles they got from Canadian traders as well as a good many firearms from General Crook's force they had just defeated at the Rosebud battle. Custer's men were only armed with single shot carbines and side arms. Custer and his division didn't stand a chance. It was if they were a few butterflies flying right into a swarm of angry hornets. Little Big Man's version was just one in many by Hollywood.
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Had either Reno or Benteen gone to Custer's aide, they and their companies would have been massacred as well. It is a military axiom to never reinforce failure and against those odds any attempt by either officer to reinforce Custer's contingent with their own meager forces would have met with utter failure and complete annihilation.
This clip is a joke and anyone who takes anypart of it as being true, really needs to research history....never let one moment or action in history give you the ideal you know it all.
@cheyenneandlakota One big omission I noticed is the Lakota and Cheyenne were actually better armed many carried newer repeating rifles they had gotten through trade and raids, whilie the troopers were armed with older calvalry rifles. Big reason I tend to lean more towards 300 warriors being killed in the battle is that there were two fights goin on, one with Custer the other with Reno and the Reno battle lasted longer then Custer's
That's what I thought you meant but to my mind "retribution"usually implies punishment, vengeance or "payback" (in the negative sense). People receive just retribution for crimes they have committed. But in the sense you obviously meant it I completely agree with you.
The story as told by the Lakota themselves is less dramatic and more efficient. They ambushed the 7th Cavalry, firing a hail of bullets and raining down arrows in masses. It probably took half a minute but I'm only guessing. Probably after half a minute no man was standing anymore and all that was left was mopping up the combat scene. In Spielberg's TV series "Into the West" shows it the Lakota way: the cavalry runs into a mass of enemy warriors, they close in and in moments it is over.
Hey Crazy Bear!! Greetings Indigenous Brother! I saw this video years ago in an Auckland NZ picture theater with the rest of our Maori bros. But kind of missed the end when we got chucked out for cheering on our our Indian brothers like Crazy horse and booing Colonel Custer, who got his just deserts. Peace!
Northern plains Indians like the Lakota based their power on the power of their enemies. Custer was not a nut, he just let his ego get him and his troops killed.
@dredandmrbears (500 character limit) Respect for Libby Custer after Little Bighorn was so high that even veterans who'd served with Custer during the Civil War and the Battle/Massacure of Washita were all but forbidden to give their views of Custer or the events surrounding his campaigns. the nicest way of putting it was only Libby's books and Custer's own autobiography were seen as fact and like I said before by the time Libby Custer died many of those veterans had died as well
Black Kettle's camp on the Washita. He was a Cheyenne leader who had survived a similar unprovoked attack from John Chivington's force of murderers some years earlier. I do believe both times Black Kettle not only had a white flag of peace wavering above his camp, but an American flag as well.
This is one of my most like film, Little Big Man (1970) performed by Dustin Hoffman. Amerindians (Native Americans) is mostly proficiency in without saddle horse riding. Have a fun.
he never raised the surrender flag. even by the Indian participants of the battle, he and his men fought bravely as did their opponents, the victors. That's just the way it was. Leave it that way.
It's naive to believe that it couldn't have been avoided had the people, both whites and Native Americans turned a deaf ear to the militants, both whites and native americans, who advocated wars of extermination and wars their peoples had no chance of winning. But what's done is done, no ammount of money or land will undo the shame of the massacres comitted by both sides, all we can do is learn from those mistakes and make sure they never happen again
From what I have been able to glean from the historical record , it would seem that Crook was more interested in hunting game, and continuing his camping on the Rosebud, then conbcluding this expedition of 1876. PS. I am glad there are others out thyere who care about history. This mess today, I know, what a joke. Hopeto talk to you history buffs again!
Dixie- come on, if one thing Custer was not it was a coward. The man was brave beyond commparison(sic) His CW record speaks 4 itself. He no doubt was at a crossroad in his life. It is so easy for us 100plus years later to judge.
yea, but the indians suffered casualties in this battle as well. historians (both indian & white) report indian casualties may have been as high as 18 (that's one eight).
@margot9230 I agree. Indians respects brave warriors no matter if they where white, black, have better technology, tactics etc etc. Thumbs up for this comment : )
I'm no fan of Custer, but you can't depend on Hollywood for the facts. The first movie I ever saw about him was Walt Disney's "Tonka". When I saw that, I thought he was a mean rotten man. Then later I saw Errol Flynn's "They Died with their Boots On",in which he was portrayed as a hero. So I became confused. I had to read and research in books to learn the truth about Custer. He was neither a madman or a saint. Just a soldier who followed orders, even if some innocent Indians got killed.
Yep.There are no limits to human greed and nothing is exempt from human malignity. And unfortunately for everyone, “What happens now has happened in the past, and what will happen in the future has happened before. God makes the same things happen again and again ...” Ecclesiastes 3:15
Arthur Penn; genius. One of the greatest, yet most underrated , movie
directors ever.
"They" should read a history book w/ regards to medical aspects. Custer was shot in the chest and the head, but basically only bled from the chest wound, so the head wound was postmortem. Best scholarship shows he was shot early in the battle while crossing the creek towards the indian encampment (by White Cow Bull) and was carried up the hill (to the scene of final fighting) by his troops, mortally wounded. .
i served in the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry [formerly Cavalry] in Vietnam. The grandson of one of the Cheyenne who fought in this battle served with me. The grandfather was Night Killer or Kills at Night. The grandson was Gary medicine Bird. Kills at Night fought to avenge his mother's death at Sand Creek, and lived to be over 100 years old.--Tom Reilly
Did y'all both fight in the battle portrayed in the movie We Were Soldiers?
“We’re running out of ammunition, General.” “RIGHT!” Mulligan-as-Custer’s reaction to that kills me every time. It’s like, you ever have one of those days? 😂
ты лично был знаком с ним поздравляю ,а то что этот псих пристрелил свою лошадь на охоте он тебе не рассказывал
This one film, changed a lot of minds about the Little Big Horn...
Previously, it had been a National tragedy, Memorialized as such in film. Fort Apache. They Died with their Boots on. But after this...
(Side Note: GarryOwen makes me wanna fight people..)
The 60s AIM movement demonized Custer as well.
I think this bs movie was the final nail. Custer was not a loon.
I like the wicked persona they gave him lmao
Lieutenant-Colonel Custer graduated from West Point 34th out of a class of 34.
He was court-martialled in 1867 for disobeying orders,treating his men cruelly and abandoning two of them to the Indians.Reinstated the following year,he massacred 103 Cheyenne (including women and children) and earned from the Indians the epithet "Squaw-killer" (source : The Guiness Book of military Blunders).
Custer was killed at Little Big Horn after splitting up his small force and attacking overwhelming odds.
Brilliant Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My father took me to see this the very week it came to the cinema in Toronto...It will always be in my top 10!
Thanks!
Gemma
I am a man of the western United States. I have a little Scottish, Welsh, and Irish in my bloodlines, as well as German.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, Eellenne . . . . . . basically, Custer had it coming.
It's pure fiction but it still works. It was an anti-war movie especially against the backdrop of the Mi Lai massacre in Vietnam. The Calley-Custer analogy.
Very insightful. I love Casablanca but I didn't see it in the backdrop of Hitler going from victory to victory in Europe..there's a frisson that's always missing.
Possibly the Sioux' finest hour.
Too bad, 15 years later, the tables turned.
"Mr President, you are drunk!" Custer is hilarious in this film :)
@dredandmrbears
Contrary to the popular legend the 7th Calvary lost about half of it's men. Custer split the unit into three columns, one under his direct command, one under Reno and one under Bentine which stayed behind to guard the baggage train. Only the collumn under Custer's direct command was wiped out, the other two were mauled but survived and were blamed for the disaster even though Custer was cut off and any attempt to break through the Indian lines would've been a suicide mission
one of the greatest battle in war ever fought , and the home team won!
Hardly a battle !
Wasn’t that great
5,000 vs 200, wow, big win. lol
@@stevejuzefski5421 You got those numbers wrong though.....
More likely 2000....Custer had 700.....
Great performance, even though Custer was never as insane as he was portrayed here.
Cocaine
You must admit, Reno and Benteen managed their commands better.
@@DrCruel Reno and Benteen we're both succesful in their defenses, not so much in their attacks. Custer just fucked all up.
@@w1pa123 In war, the prize for not being a fuckup is a higher likelihood of going home. As for Custer, he got to say goodbye to his brothers and his command.
In Nam they would have fragged him, I'm guessing.
Best Custer caricature ever.
It wasn't such a last stand, more a long covered retreat up a hill
As one of the victors reportedly said, the battle took about as long as it takes a hungry man to eat his dinner.
@@gregford2103 Two hours isn't really that fast.
Custer may have shown very poor judgment at the Little Big Horn, but he wasn't a raving maniac, either. This scene is more a depiction of late-sixties anti-war sensibilities than it is an accurate decription of what happened that day.
You have to realize he was a man of his times. Life was cruel back then. Both sides committed atrocities. Custer was no Chivington, who truly was a butcher.
And this was war. You do not murder in war, you kill!
There have been a lot of bad movies about Little Big Horn. This is one of them.
Actually, compared to most Custer movies , its more realistic and was actually filmed near there.
Great movie, it was never trying to be a history lesson
"please Mr. Custer I don't wanna go"
Little Big Man. Good movie.
It sucked. Propaganda piece for the leftist elite and, oddly enough, the Sioux. Knew that from the line "Them Pawnee was always sucking up to the white man"- Truth is, the Sioux were doing their level best to exterminate the Pawnee from the face of the earth every last man woman and child, at the same time as they are whining about the whites being mean to them. Sioux also took the land of the Pawnee- they were originally from Minnesota, chased out of there by other tribes but had more guns because they'd been trading with the whites, so they used that advantage to slaughter all the Pawnee and Crow they could find and take their land.
Our minds must work different because I didn't see any of that.
Little Big Man was a comedy, sort of a parody strictly for entertainment, in other words fiction. Still a great movie!
It's a prime example that you can win a battle but loose a war, after Little Bighorn the gloves were off and what is now known as the Souix Wars exploded across the west and we all know where and how the wars ended: Wounded Knee. A battle that never should've happened triggered a war that never should've happened a war that ended in a massacre that never should've happened
snakes3425
True. It was disgraceful.
And also how they killed Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
Never forget, never forgiven.
This battle scene was actually filmed at the real site in Montana. Just thought you'd like to know.
the actual site is in the Dakotas; just thought you'd like to know ; )
Derek Bates the actual site is in Montana. It was Montana territory at the time of the battle, it is in the state of Montana today.
USCFlash No, Little Bighorn is in the Dakotas.
Derek Bates
No Derek, its not. The Little Bighorn Battlefield is located at the Crow Indian Reservation
756 Battlefield Tour Road, Crow Agency, Mt 59022
That is its official address. Go look at a map please.
Montana territory was created in 1864.
USCFlash my bad; it looked like the black hills. Btw, has gold ever really been confirmed to be found there was that all bullshit?
Richard Mulligan is pure gold. l liked him so much in "Soap"
@OAKLANDCHICANOS14 warrior my ass! You think these men were cowards? Many were civil war vets. They walked and rode into thousands of musketts and artillery in open fields. Sure, they needed native americans as trackers, but that doesn't make them poor warriors or weak.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” - Sun Tzu
what we do know that it was a running battle and the bodies were strewn over quite an area - and it went on for about two hours
what a shame that a really great film has never been made about this battle - inc Reno and Benteen
Another little known fact: Custer cut his trade-mark long blond hair BEFORE this battle.
The terrain played a role, at Thermopoyle the Greeks knew the pass was narrow enough that the Persans would be unable to bring the full might of their army to bare, and the longer they could hold the pass the more time the others had to mobilize. At the Little Bighorn the collumn with Custer was completely exposed and the Native Americans could bring the full might of their army into the battle, Reno and Bentein faired better because they had some cover
Little Bighorn is one of those events where it's diffiult to seperate fact from fiction the truth about what happened that day more then likely lies somewhere in the middle since Reno's soldiers, Bentine's soldiers and the Native Americans were never allowed to tell their stories while veterans of the battle were still alive out of some misplaced belief that it would dishonor the men who were killed in the battle
as history it's junk but as entertainment it's great. fantastic ott performance by mulligan
It's A MOVIE not a history lesson
Not quite. Custer’s forces from the last stand battle were only 215. The total number of the 7th Cav in the area was 610. Custer had broken them up into 4 separate units (splitting his forces). The number of the Indians in the area was est. at 11,000. The number of warriors who defeated Custer was estimated to have been 3000. Hence the reason the battle was short. Under 20 minutes by some eye witnesses.
From what I recall of the movie, I don't remember it ever making the claim that it was a documentary about the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It simply was a fictional tale that used people and the time period for its story line. If a detective story is set in the suburbs of Denver, but the film is shot in Colorado Springs, that doesn't make it a worthless movie.
As a history major, I found it to be very entertaining with more than a few extremely cute skits.
To me, this is Dustin Hoffman's best role by far. He carried this movie completely.
All cinematic representations of Custer range from untruthful to just plain ridiculous.
This could have been a very good scene if not for how ridiculous they made Custer appear and it ruined it.
Son of the Morning Star was probably the best version
"mr. president, you are drunk"
266 troopers against 2000+ battle hardened Lakota and Chyanne Warriors in the open how did you think the battle would end? You know why the Greeks were able to hold the Persans off for 3 days at Thermopyle, they knew the pass was too narrow for the Persans to bring the full might of their army to bare. At the Little Bighorn there was no cover, no protection, the Native Americans could bring their entire army into the fray
x Heystraw ,, Arthur Penn is the art director of the movie
Almost if i dont wrong this is one of the final scene of " Little Big Man " (1970) with Dustin Hoffman
You know, Custer was extremely full of himself but this clip from that movie i saw as a kid, is way over the top. I wouldn't want my kids to see this because this is not what really happened.
Dude--you are really missing something here.
The entire film is a TALL TALE told by the character Jack Crabb (Hoffman) who claims he is "120 years old"
and "survived the battle of Little Big Horn"
The movie is a COMEDY and the main character is portrayed as basically a liar.
This is from the film's original poster:
"Either The Most Neglected Hero In History Or A LIAR Of Insane Proportion!"
...so just lighten up and enjoy.
Crook should have been courtmartialed for his actions (or lack of) after Rosebud.
Whatever the Army expected to find at LBH they found it with one third of their striking power out of the fight!
Life for life
Go away general
I wish they would make a movie about the Little Bighorn that was neutral something like: a lowly private in the 7th Calvary, who dreams of one day owning a small farm in South Dakota, suddenly strikes up a friendship with a Lakota prisoner, and both come to see men where all others had only seen monsters, as the 7th and Lakota confront their destinies, the two friends find themselves on opposite sides, torn between their friendship and their shared belief in duty, honor and loyalty
Movies always portray a big last stand in reality they where over ran in minutes. But I still love all these movies
@BobJim1995
First of all Benteen and Reno were 7th Calvarly as well, in total at the time of the battle the 7th Calvary numbered around 700 Officers, Troopers, and Scouts and of that 268 were killed in the battle and a further 55 wounded as for Reno and Benteen they were cut off from Custer and were engaged in their own battles or guarding the supply train, the only thing Benteen and Reno could've done was send their collumns on what ammounted to a suicide mission.
3:15; Kurt Cobain is perplexed.
@cheyenneandlakota
They weren't always mounted during the march, and the march was from North Dakota to the battlefield, I've riden horses before and the longer you're mounted and the faster you're moving the more of a toll riding takes on you physically, especally on your back, also in the case of the 7th factor in they were also contending with the summer heat
The more I watch this scene, the more I realize it's also a great satire on the climatic battle of "They Died with Their Boots On." The entire scene is a duplicate of the cavalry charge and eventual battle from that movie.
The depiction of Custer is a bit over the top, but the location looks so much like the real battlefield it's almost scary.
Well for one thing, many of the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho were well armed with repeating rifles they got from Canadian traders as well as a good many firearms from General Crook's force they had just defeated at the Rosebud battle. Custer's men were only armed with single shot carbines and side arms. Custer and his division didn't stand a chance. It was if they were a few butterflies flying right into a swarm of angry hornets.
Little Big Man's version was just one in many by Hollywood.
"Damn, that's a lot of Indians!"
Seveil 1000 even with modern weapons and tactics at the time it was no much for force in numbers
I got to see the land of the greasy grass, amazing.
@AlienBeliever897 Custer was certainly no hero!
It’s hard for me to think that’s the Future Captain Hook whom Dustin Hoffman would go onto play in the Year Of 1991 and while in which would end up becoming the most iconic and well known role ever to be played in my LifeTime by Dustin Hoffman !
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Had either Reno or Benteen gone to Custer's aide, they and their companies would have been massacred as well. It is a military axiom to never reinforce failure and against those odds any attempt by either officer to reinforce Custer's contingent with their own meager forces would have met with utter failure and complete annihilation.
True but it's an unwritten rule to never leave your friends behind.
This clip is a joke and anyone who takes anypart of it as being true, really needs to research history....never let one moment or action in history give you the ideal you know it all.
Yes I know, what we have to go through to see history on the silver screen. remember it was the 70's.
@cheyenneandlakota
One big omission I noticed is the Lakota and Cheyenne were actually better armed many carried newer repeating rifles they had gotten through trade and raids, whilie the troopers were armed with older calvalry rifles. Big reason I tend to lean more towards 300 warriors being killed in the battle is that there were two fights goin on, one with Custer the other with Reno and the Reno battle lasted longer then Custer's
The real Custer had his hair cut short for battle...
Starlingchaser 1
Knew he might get scalped
They took whatever was left on that, silly coward, Custer's head. Custer didnt ride so good anymore. lmao
At the time of the battle Custer was starting to go bald so he cut his hair to make it not so obvious
Another myth.
Happy 140 th anniversary general ..!
That's what I thought you meant but to my mind "retribution"usually implies punishment, vengeance or "payback" (in the negative sense). People receive just retribution for crimes they have committed. But in the sense you obviously meant it I completely agree with you.
@jbcowdery He was a hero, just not that day....during the civil war he proved himself to be both very brave and strong leader
Ah alright. Thank you for the explanation.
The story as told by the Lakota themselves is less dramatic and more efficient.
They ambushed the 7th Cavalry, firing a hail of bullets and raining down arrows in masses.
It probably took half a minute but I'm only guessing. Probably after half a minute no man was standing anymore and all that was left was mopping up the combat scene.
In Spielberg's TV series "Into the West" shows it the Lakota way: the cavalry runs into a mass of enemy warriors, they close in and in moments it is over.
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I saw this video years ago in an Auckland NZ picture theater with the rest of our Maori bros. But kind of missed the end when we got chucked out for cheering on our our Indian brothers like Crazy horse and booing Colonel Custer, who got his just deserts.
Peace!
Northern plains Indians like the Lakota based their power on the power of their enemies. Custer was not a nut, he just let his ego get him and his troops killed.
the song is Gary Owen. the Regimental song of the 7th Cavalry.
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Respect for Libby Custer after Little Bighorn was so high that even veterans who'd served with Custer during the Civil War and the Battle/Massacure of Washita were all but forbidden to give their views of Custer or the events surrounding his campaigns. the nicest way of putting it was only Libby's books and Custer's own autobiography were seen as fact and like I said before by the time Libby Custer died many of those veterans had died as well
LOL the noncom sergeant screamed toward his death at 2:54 like a little whining girl! HAHAHA!!
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Black Kettle's camp on the Washita. He was a Cheyenne leader who had survived a similar unprovoked attack from John Chivington's force of murderers some years earlier. I do believe both times Black Kettle not only had a white flag of peace wavering above his camp, but an American flag as well.
" I like dis General Custer... I was a good death."
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It might have been more "fair" if Custer wasn't an idiot and had brought the 2 Gatling guns he had at his disposal.
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It seems Custer *puts on glasses* took an arrow to the knee... yeaaaaah
This is one of my most like film, Little Big Man (1970) performed by Dustin Hoffman. Amerindians (Native Americans) is mostly proficiency in without saddle horse riding. Have a fun.
he never raised the surrender flag. even by the Indian participants of the battle, he and his men fought bravely as did their opponents, the victors. That's just the way it was. Leave it that way.
dude playin custer like the old theatre.
It's naive to believe that it couldn't have been avoided had the people, both whites and Native Americans turned a deaf ear to the militants, both whites and native americans, who advocated wars of extermination and wars their peoples had no chance of winning. But what's done is done, no ammount of money or land will undo the shame of the massacres comitted by both sides, all we can do is learn from those mistakes and make sure they never happen again
A coward dies a thousand deaths, a soldier but one. God may love the Infantry, but the Devil fears the CAVALRY
Gods not real
Historically Custer could have taken his 5 Gatling guns which he possessed but decided instead to leave them behind in his camp. oops!
this clip is from the movie Little Big Man 1970
From what I have been able to glean from the historical record , it would seem that Crook was more interested in hunting game, and continuing his camping on the Rosebud, then conbcluding this expedition of 1876.
PS. I am glad there are others out thyere who care about history. This mess today, I know, what a joke. Hopeto talk to you history buffs again!
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Not exactally what doomed Custer's collumn is that he led them right into an ambush
Dixie- come on, if one thing Custer was not it was a coward. The man was brave beyond commparison(sic) His CW record speaks 4 itself. He no doubt was at a crossroad in his life. It is so easy for us 100plus years later to judge.
yea, but the indians suffered casualties in this battle as well. historians (both indian & white) report indian casualties may have been as high as 18 (that's one eight).
@margot9230 I agree. Indians respects brave warriors no matter if they where white, black, have better technology, tactics etc etc.
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I'm no fan of Custer, but you can't depend on Hollywood for the facts. The first movie I ever saw about him was Walt Disney's "Tonka". When I saw that, I thought he was a mean rotten man. Then later I saw Errol Flynn's "They Died with their Boots On",in which he was portrayed as a hero. So I became confused. I had to read and research in books to learn the truth about Custer. He was neither a madman or a saint. Just a soldier who followed orders, even if some innocent Indians got killed.
@JohnnyAmerica1327 did they have entrenching tools?
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You mean that fife and drum tune? That's "Garry Owen".
Custer had no supporting cast for an attack to surmount against unfair odds
Custer was right handed and he had a wound to the left temple. He did not shoot himself in the head.
3:06 why didnt younger bear help that other indian that was pulled off his horse by the soldier?
As long as it takes ,for a hungry man to eat his lunch , for me that's 5 mins half that in an emergency
Yep.There are no limits to human greed and nothing is exempt from human malignity. And unfortunately for everyone, “What happens now has happened in the past, and what will happen in the future has happened before. God makes the same things happen again and again ...” Ecclesiastes 3:15
Straight out of the movie "Little Big Man' with Dustin Hoffman and Chief Dan George.
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