11: Custer's bluster.(George Armstrong Custer's actions at Little Bighorn re-examined)(Brief Article)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: July 24, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

It was the cavalry that needed rescuing that blistering summer afternoon 124 years ago.

George Armstrong Custer, the young Civil War hero turned Indian fighter, was trapped on a desolate ridge overlooking the Little Bighorn River in the territory of Montana. Swarms of well-armed Indians surrounded him. According to legend--and many historians--Custer rallied his vastly outnumbered troops. The desperate 7th Cavalry soldiers shot their horses to make barricades and fought ferociously as hundreds of Indians, led by famed Sioux war chief Crazy Horse, overran the ridge.

But ...

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