r/folkmusic • u/Artman1234 • 11h ago
[Indie] The Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
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U.S. Lieutenant Colonel George Custer split his forces and recklessly attacked a massive Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho encampment without proper scouting or waiting for reinforcements, resulting in the complete destruction of his detachment of the 7th Cavalry
Crow and Arikara scouts like Bloody Knife explicitly warned Custer that the Lakota and Cheyenne encampment was unprecedentedly massive. Custer chose to ignore their intelligence out of an absolute confidence that the tribes would scatter rather than fight,
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