When your scouts start making peace with their God its probably a sign you should be considering things a little bit.
Anyone want to sit on the plane next to the guy as he "cleanses" his earthly vessel in preparation for acceptance into heaven?
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When your scouts start making peace with their God its probably a sign you should be considering things a little bit.
Anyone want to sit on the plane next to the guy as he "cleanses" his earthly vessel in preparation for acceptance into heaven?
Heavy emphasis on this.
The desolation and smallness you feel there would only be absolutely infinitely magnafied if you couldnt see the worlds shitties gas station, macadam roadway and a bunch of fat tourists trying to hobble around on the pathways.
100 Lbs of Gatling Gun. 250 lbs of carriage. About 5 lbs per stick of loaded ammo. Drum of ammo about 50 lbs.
Cheers,
Sirhr
The numbers ruled, thousands against hundreds. Battle was decided before it was fought.
At mid-day on June 25, Custer’s 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Among the Native Americans, word quickly spread of the impending attack. The older Sitting Bull rallied the warriors and saw to the safety of the women and children, while Crazy Horse set off with a large force to meet the attackers head on. Despite Custer’s desperate attempts to regroup his men, they were quickly overwhelmed. Custer and some 200 men in his battalion were attacked by as many as 3,000 Native Americans; within an hour, Custer and all of his soldiers were dead.
Battle of the Little Bighorn - Location, Cause & Significance
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer’s Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory a...
BTW, it was not just Custer and his ego...
Battle happened in June 25th and into the 26th in 1876.
At the time, America was having an orgy of self-loving as it got ready to celebrate its centennial. The West was being won. The Savage was being pushed into reservations as settlers opened the wild frontier. The industrial Revolution was in full-swing. Post Civil War, the American manufacturers in the East were running 24 x 7 and were beating England in production. Even the South, after 10 years, was finally getting back on its feet and rebuilding an economy.
There was NOTHING America could not do... and do better than anyone else.
The psychological blow of "Custers Last Stand" was an utter shock to the American Public. How could an entire American Cavalry unit be snuffed out by a bunch of bug-eating savages? It was as bad as Tet. Or the wake-up calls of Tarawa and Kasserine Pass. "We got this" was suddenly replaced with... "Oh shit, this is going to be harder than we thought."
Also, to cover a disaster, you need a hero. So, Custer got turned into a hero. Paintings glorified him and his valiant men in their Last Stand. And the rout became a testament to American heroism and sacrifice at the hand of godless heathen savages. Justifying 'any means' to root them out of the Dakotas. Oh, yeah, because there was Gold in them thar hills. Also, Custer's widow got rich as all hell promoting his memory and selling off anything "Custer" she could get her mitts on. As long as she lived, she promoted his memory and his ability to make big bucks as a corpse!
Anyhoo... it's a great battle to study! But the lead-up and the aftermath are possibly more important to American history.
As this is fun stuff and cool memes, not history... Here is one of my favorite tributes to Custer.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Custer wasnt a total idiot that he is made out to be.
Much of that is 60s counter culture and America is bad. Bring on Dustin Hoffman and Little Big Man. Shit that movie was the start of introducing overtly gay characters into the historical record as being the majority in culture.
Custer fought war the way it sometimes has to be. Keep in mind an election, a convention, troubled political times, aspirations for power.....the mess we are in without the internet and the overwhelming surveillance state. Our present highway cameras out on the cross roads would have told Custer "Enemy has big Medicine"
Read "Digging into Custers Last Stand" by Sandy Barnard, for an archeological evidentiary record of the battle.
Read "Crazy Horse and Chief Red Cloud" by Ed Mcgaa, for some background on the Sioux. Mr. McGaa is a Sioux and his perspective was not entirely appreciated amongst some of the tribe because his approach is not taking on the role of "victim". He was laso a USMC Vietnam F-4 pilot and thus had a warriors perspective and more than many others rightly understands what Native American culture was all about for that reason.
Driving through the Crow reservation was tough especially as I was doing it when Hillary had planned to bring 10,000 syrians into the country a month. I was like what the fuck are we bringing them in for when we could be cleaning up the worlds shittiest gas station?
Right?
Both excellent books, BTW.
And, yes, in addition to all the self-adulation of the Centennial... are all the things you mention as well. Throw in a massacre at the hands of Injuns, and you have a political football of epic proportions!
Cheers,
Sirhr
The initial purpose of machine guns, and in some ways a lost art of employing them, is as indirect fire weapons.
They were developed in the age of volley fire and it was until someone said "Hey what if we point it right at them and sweep the area at their knees" and the masses of troops to make that worthwhile, than the idea of the machine gun as flat trajectory weapon gained its killing value.
Firing 1000 rounds at 20-30 spread out moving enemy was not cool to bean counters.
Its the same reason why the cvalry troopers had single shots.
A good one.... always makes it a bit dusty when you hear it.
Sirhr
That video clip should show the doubtful how powerful a bull bison is.
He picked that other 2000lb critter up like a sack of potatoes.
Thanks Sirhr,
The fact that the headstones or markers mark where each casualty fell is one of the most important features of the battlefield. One could then put it in motion.
The troops were rode down, exhausted by Custer's pace by the time the battle started and most were in poor health to began with; mostly Irish, German, Swedish immigrants suffering from a litany of chronic ailments of the working poor including rotten teeth and premature degenerative disc disease.
"Benteen, Come on. Big village. Be quick. Bring packs. PS Bring pacs" Famous last words.
There was an excellent documentary a few years ago on the History Channel that I was trying to find an excerpt on and came across this. I'm watching it now and it's petty good.
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The reasoning to that is ironic and goes against the basic rule of horse warfare. The European culture stalled at the 98th Meridian or roughly the eastern edge of the Great Plains because white men didn't know how to fight as a light cavalry. Single shot rifles were no match for a mounted Plains Indian and his bow.
Thats why Samuel Walker teamed with Sam Colt to come up with the Colt Walker that gave him a repeating weapon to fight from horseback without having to dismount to reload.
Reno showed the fatal weakness of the single shot rifle when he ordered his troops to dismount to fight Indians on horseback.
Single shots weren't much better against Human Wave attacks, either. Isambulwana was a massacre. Roark's Drift was almost a massacre... and had it no been propagandized with medals and glory, would have caused the British Government to fall.
Zulu is just one of those great movies... hard to find anywhere any more. It's been cancelled.
Sirhr
One of the huge issues that I read with the British was the process it took for the men to get ammo. The Brits were very methodical on how they handed out ammo (VERY slow), and it wasn't timely if you were a front-line solider burning through it.
Movie showed a bit of the issues
Too be fair and accurate, not all the Indians closing in on Last Stand Hill were mounted. Many were crawling up in the tall grass to fire Henrys and Winchester and of course arrows.
For a people that lived in the "stone age" how in the wide world of sports did they get steel for them spear points? Asking for a friend.
Exactly... @pmclaine made a really insightful comment above when he mentioned Heavy Cavalry vs. Light Cavalry. Custer was definitely heavy cavalry. More like mounted infantry. Which was how they fought. Come in on horses, dismount and skirmish as infantry.
The natives were light cavalry and stayed on their horses. They were fast, agile and heavily armed. And supported light (very light) infantry. Their unmounted braves. Custer became a fixed, dismounted position surrounded by a much greater moblie force. Yeah, not a good day in Mudville.
As true light cavalry, it was hard to match the attackers on that day!
Sirhr
Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle?
Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle? Paul Hughes Vacaville, California Historians still struggle to corroborate or
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Trading for centuries... With Arabs. The Dutch. The Spanish. The Portuguese. The English. The French. The African Continent had been carved up into colonies for at least 2 centuries when Isambulwana occurred. And as with the Argentinians and their Exocets... a French Pimp will sell anything to anyone. Come to think of it... so will any colonial power.
How many spear points for an ivory tusk? For a lump of gold? For working in a diamond mine. For... a boatload of your neighboring tribesmen who were hot property in Jamaica and Charleston?
Dang... After 1600 or so, the French were supplying iron arrow points, tomahawks, knives and all kinds of goodies to "their" indians in Quebec. And the English were handing out iron stuff like candy after establishment of ports like Boston, Portsmouth and New York.
Also, the Zulu's at Roark's Drift had all the rifles and ammo looted from the 1000 or so British troops wiped out a couple of days before at Isambulwana.
Cheers,
Sirhr
As they are suggesting sending their legions of retards into small towns….
Boowah hahhaahahaha…
Sirhr
Maybe. I think the ratio of patriots vs. tit worthless people would be about the same as in the American revolution, 13%.
I went around once asking them if they wanted to form a neighborhood watch group and all I got was this confused Walmart dumblook
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Maybe. I think the ratio of patriots vs. tit worthless people would be about the same as in the American revolution, 13%.
I went around once asking them if they wanted to form a neighborhood watch group and all I got was this confused Walmart dumblook
I'm surprised that you weren't labeled as some sort of wannabe cop or Rambo. They might have said, behind your back, that you were projecting and actually planning some apocalyptical shenanigan on your neighbors.
I went to a neighborhood watch meeting once. They were trying to form a new group. It was only the first meeting.
I wasn't invited back to the second meeting. It must have been because of the question I asked about the "no weapons" bullet point on the power point presentation.
That why after about the third neighbor I realized it was pretty much every man for himself out here. One retiree said "I don't think they would come all the way out here."
I didn't argue as I didn't want to be labeled as that crazy conspiracy nut.
Custer's ego was his downfall. He wrote checks with his ego that he couldn't cash with his ass.... Huge ego's are the downfall of many military leaders.
I didnt think there was a verified picture of Crazy Horse in existence....I wonder if those pics are correctly used.
Far as I know the Sioux had no gun making ability.....where did they get their Henry's?
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Custer cashed his check many, many times.
He just went to the book once to often.
You are basing your point more on the 60s redefinition than an unbiased look at the record.
Any guy that fought as much as he did, and one as often as he did, has to have some "attitude".
This was the pre counter culture Custer.....
I'd take a bit more from the pre counter culture era and than add just a dash of post counter culture and you probably get reality.
As small as the army was than and judgung by the commanders that were his "mentors" I dont think Custer lead an undisciplined Troop.
Rumor had it some of these fucks were coming to my town in Ky. I had a speech all set for them."Welcome to Ky. and Thank You ! Turkey season is over it will be months before deer season comes in and we have NOTHING TO SHOOT around here. Now in the interest of sportsmanship we suggest you let the fast go first because it would totally unfair to shoot a fast mover climbing over a fat ass . Please give us a few moments to rearrange some shooting positions ,it appears we have some guys that have cheated on their qualification card. Thank You Again ! " What ya think ?
I'm not even kidding, the high end ones are like made from like Reindeer hide.
I was only kidding with my comment being aware that the German language does not leave much to guess at.
"Leder" leather? Right. "Hosen" = pants.
Any nation that can only take the time to name something as cool as a submarine an "Unterseebooten" needs more humor.
95% of the shit you said over there must have gone over people heads.
Whats the name for Subway?
Isnt its literal translation something like "Train that runs under the ground on tracks through a tunnel using electricity"
He had a match in this bar in Durango, Colorado. My bad photo of the mural on the wall outside the bar.
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U-bahn (Unntergrundbahn)
Street cars are S-bahn (Strassenbahn)
And the longest word in German (42 letters) is (drumroll please) - Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän, "Danube steamship company captain.)
Not sure about the Zulus, but the Plains Indians could either acquire steel arrow heads from trading posts like in Taos, from Mexican traders or Comancheros; the same place they got highly coveted junk plastic beads to wear and combs to comb the lice out of their hair. But most of the time, as in the case of the Comanche, they made their steel arrow heads themselves, filed out of barrel hoops, which made for vicious projectiles that were prone to cause blood poisoning and tetanus.
The Plains Indian, particularly the elite Comanches, were the the greatest light cavalry in the world, better than the Cossacks, Mongols and the Huns. For the 7th Calvary to allow them to get to their horses and get mounted played a major factor in Custer's defeat.
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