I's with Custer and the 7th in ‘76 or ‘77
I's with Custer and the 7th in ‘76 or ‘77
Scalped at Little Big Horn by the Sioux
And the pain and desperation of a once proud warrior nation
This I know ‘cause I was riding with them too
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=UMEJu19y214
Originally shared by Dirk Puehl
26 June 1876, #onthisday 140 years ago, the Battle of the Little Bighorn or Battle of the Greasy Grass to the Lakota finally ended after the death of Lt Colonel George Armstrong Custer on the previous day and the attacks on Benteen’s and Reno’s position finally ceased with the confederation of Lakota, Cherokee and Arapaho leaving the area.
In the spring of 1876, the US Army was supposed to pin down the hostile Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho with a so-called “three-pronged approach”, eradicate any resistance and drive the survivors back to the reservations. The Great Sioux War had begun. And since all US Army commanders involved occupied themselves with how to catch the Injuns, expecting anything but a stiff resistance, the first real contact with the enemy on Rosebud Creek in Montana on 17 June came as a bit of a surprise to General Crook’s northbound column. A more or less equally strong contingent of Lakota and Cheyenne braves under the Oglala war chief Tȟašúŋke Witkó, Crazy Horse, had fought the advance of Crook’s 1,000 army regulars and Crow and Shoshoni allies to a standstill, putting his column out of action. The commanders of the Dakota and Montana column, General Alfred Terry, Colonel Gibbon and Terry’s cavalry leader Lt. Colonel Custer met on 21 June on board of the supply ship “Far West” on the banks of the Yellowstone River and discussed their further proceedings. Custer opted for leaving infantry support beind, along with a battery of Gatling machine guns, and headed his 7th Cavalry straight for the Bighorn River where scouts had located a large Indian encampment. Just how large nobody could say for certain, but Custer was anxious they might still escape him and pressed ahead into the Powder River Country. He was in for a rather nasty surprise.
But read more on:
http://wunderkammertales.blogspot.de/2016/06/day-of-greasy-grass-great-sioux-war-and.html
Depicted below is Charles Marion Russell’s "The Custer Fight" from 1903.
#americanhistory #history #militaryhistory
Scalped at Little Big Horn by the Sioux
And the pain and desperation of a once proud warrior nation
This I know ‘cause I was riding with them too
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=UMEJu19y214
Originally shared by Dirk Puehl
26 June 1876, #onthisday 140 years ago, the Battle of the Little Bighorn or Battle of the Greasy Grass to the Lakota finally ended after the death of Lt Colonel George Armstrong Custer on the previous day and the attacks on Benteen’s and Reno’s position finally ceased with the confederation of Lakota, Cherokee and Arapaho leaving the area.
In the spring of 1876, the US Army was supposed to pin down the hostile Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho with a so-called “three-pronged approach”, eradicate any resistance and drive the survivors back to the reservations. The Great Sioux War had begun. And since all US Army commanders involved occupied themselves with how to catch the Injuns, expecting anything but a stiff resistance, the first real contact with the enemy on Rosebud Creek in Montana on 17 June came as a bit of a surprise to General Crook’s northbound column. A more or less equally strong contingent of Lakota and Cheyenne braves under the Oglala war chief Tȟašúŋke Witkó, Crazy Horse, had fought the advance of Crook’s 1,000 army regulars and Crow and Shoshoni allies to a standstill, putting his column out of action. The commanders of the Dakota and Montana column, General Alfred Terry, Colonel Gibbon and Terry’s cavalry leader Lt. Colonel Custer met on 21 June on board of the supply ship “Far West” on the banks of the Yellowstone River and discussed their further proceedings. Custer opted for leaving infantry support beind, along with a battery of Gatling machine guns, and headed his 7th Cavalry straight for the Bighorn River where scouts had located a large Indian encampment. Just how large nobody could say for certain, but Custer was anxious they might still escape him and pressed ahead into the Powder River Country. He was in for a rather nasty surprise.
But read more on:
http://wunderkammertales.blogspot.de/2016/06/day-of-greasy-grass-great-sioux-war-and.html
Depicted below is Charles Marion Russell’s "The Custer Fight" from 1903.
#americanhistory #history #militaryhistory
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