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bond006
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If any of you are into Custer and his ability as a light cavalry general military only. No politics because they were terrible at the time.

Read a great new book A terrible Glory by James Donavan.

With lots on Indian testimony and other new evidence found on the field plus military documents that were found and researched he pieced together IMHO close to how the little bighorn paned out and what Custer was trying to do a very good work of the American west.

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CashCowMoo
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Well what did you discover by reading the book?

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It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.

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bond006
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There was a lot more to custer than most people think he was a very responsible cavalry comander.

More should be given credit to his civil war record and at the little big horn he actually had a plan that might have worked.

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IWISHIHAD
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Watch it Bond006 that was my old unit. [Smile]

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Another thing I read his report on the battle of east cavalry field. When one reads his report you really start to understand you are dealing with and reading the work of a very inteligent man.

I must say historicaly from my dd I have changed my mind about him. Sure he had an ego and did some terrible things but he was a soldier involved in Americas most violent war ever to date and a ginius. And thats the way he should be remembered not as a circus rider gone mad as some have put it.

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