Was Custer a Psycho ?

[Tommy Tainant]

This is an interesting film which delves into the many myths. Its not a hatchet job by any means and takes some time to discuss his finer points.

But his actions over the years led to the debacle at the Big Horn. In particular his antics at the Washita massacree some years earlier.

Ive seen more detailed accounts of the battle but this will do. He made dumb decisions and men died.


I know that he has his fans but the truth seems plain.

 

[Deadstick]

This is an interesting film which delves into the many myths. Its not a hatchet job by any means and takes some time to discuss his finer points.

But his actions over the years led to the debacle at the Big Horn. In particular his antics at the Washita massacree some years earlier.

Ive seen more detailed accounts of the battle but this will do. He made dumb decisions and men died.


I know that he has his fans but the truth seems plain.

Could have been but i would say an arrogant racist on a huge ego trip.

 

[Auld Phart]

This is an interesting film which delves into the many myths. Its not a hatchet job by any means and takes some time to discuss his finer points.

But his actions over the years led to the debacle at the Big Horn. In particular his antics at the Washita massacree some years earlier.

Ive seen more detailed accounts of the battle but this will do. He made dumb decisions and men died.


I know that he has his fans but the truth seems plain.

megalomaniac

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Custer was an extraordinarily egotistical and vain man. Yes he made terrible decisions largely made on his desire to promote himself.

The disaster at Little Big Horn had little to do with Custer's failings. The success was a result of the diplomatic and strategic genius of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse who along with Gall, united the Sioux, and Cheyenne under Chiefs American Horse and Two Moons.

Unfortunately, the American reprisal at Wounded Knee broke the indians.

 

[The Duke]

Idk, but he sure was a retarded dickhead.

 

[Godboy]

This is an interesting film which delves into the many myths. Its not a hatchet job by any means and takes some time to discuss his finer points.

But his actions over the years led to the debacle at the Big Horn. In particular his antics at the Washita massacree some years earlier.

Ive seen more detailed accounts of the battle but this will do. He made dumb decisions and men died.


I know that he has his fans but the truth seems plain.

Killing Custer ended up being an EPIC fail for the indians. They were routed and forced onto reservations after that. Karma always comes a knockin.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

megalomaniac

He was obviously a brave man and did some brilliant things. But the downside was immense..
The forced march just to hook up with his wife saw him abandon men whose horses were lame. That marks him out as mad. He should never have been allowed to hold a comission.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Killing Custer ended up being an EPIC fail for the indians. They were routed and forced onto reservations after that. Karma always comes a knockin.

They were naive to think that treatys would be honoured.

 

[Godboy]

They were naive to think that treatys would be honoured.

They broke every treaty we ever made with them. These were wild plains savages, not men with honor.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

They broke every treaty we ever made with them. These were wild planes savages, not men with honor.

How would you recognise honour ? Im shocked you can even spell a version of it.

 

[Godboy]

How would you recognise honour ? Im shocked you can even spell a version of it.

Do you know a fucking thing about the indians? Do you have any god damn idea how brutal they were? This romanticized version you see in tv and movies didnt exist. They burned men alive, murdered babies, raped and enslaved women. Torture, lots and lots of torture, usually at the hands of the women in the tribe. They tormented their captives with glee, day and night. These were some of the worst people on Earth at that time. If you met them and they had the upper hand, you were in for a horrific end.

I dont give two shits about murder tribes. They an all die for all i care. Cannibals too. Those tribes exist in the world still today. They can all die too.

 

[Godboy]

How would you recognise honour ? Im shocked you can even spell a version of it.

 

[Godboy]

How would you recognise honour ? Im shocked you can even spell a version of it.

 

[Godboy]

How would you recognise honour ? Im shocked you can even spell a version of it.

 

[Godboy]

How would you recognise honour ? Im shocked you can even spell a version of it.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Do you know a fucking thing about the indians? Do you have any god damn idea how brutal they were? This romanticized version you see in tv and movies didnt exist. They burned men alive, murdered babies, raped and enslaved women. Torture, lots and lots of torture, usually at the hands of the women in the tribe. They tormented their captives with glee, day and night. These were some of the worst people on Earth at that time. If you met them and they had the upper hand, you were in for a horrific end.

I dont give two shits about murder tribes. They an all die for all i care. Cannibals too. Those tribes exist in the world still today. They can all die too.

Did they have an offshore base in Cuba where they could imprison captives they didnt have evidence to take to trial ?

 

[mikegriffith1]

This is an interesting film which delves into the many myths. Its not a hatchet job by any means and takes some time to discuss his finer points.

But his actions over the years led to the debacle at the Big Horn. In particular his antics at the Washita massacree some years earlier.

Ive seen more detailed accounts of the battle but this will do. He made dumb decisions and men died.

I know that he has his fans but the truth seems plain.

Another leftist tearing down an American hero based on shallow, one-sided research. You must have watched that documentary while dozing in and out of sleep, because the documentary is actually a good defense of Custer's actions at the Little Big Horn. That's why I advertise the documentary on my Custer website.

FYI, with only one exception, every historian and Custer scholar who has written about Custer's Last Stand in the last 20 years has concluded that Custer's actions at the Little Big Horn were tactically sound given the information he had at the time, and that he would have either won or at least survived if his two chief subordinates, Reno and Benteen, had not brazenly disobeyed their orders and failed to come to his aid.

Here's my Custer website:

General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn

 

[luiza]

Was Custer a Psycho ?

Do not start projecting your own woes onto others .
I would have thought you were more of a Sick Psychotic.

But why quarrel over degrees of insanity ?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Another leftist tearing down an American hero based on shallow, one-sided research. You must have watched that documentary while dozing in and out of sleep, because the documentary is actually a good defense of Custer's actions at the Little Big Horn. That's why I advertise the documentary on my Custer website.

FYI, with only one exception, every historian and Custer scholar who has written about Custer's Last Stand in the last 20 years has concluded that Custer's actions at the Little Big Horn were tactically sound given the information he had at the time, and that he would have either won or at least survived if his two chief subordinates, Reno and Benteen, had not brazenly disobeyed their orders and failed to come to his aid.

Here's my Custer website:

General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn

I vase the description on his previous actions. His forced overnight march of tired troops. He abandoned injured soldiers or troopers with lame horses.
At least one was captured and killed.
What strategic purpose was served ?
Custer gor to spend the night with his wife. Thats it.
Those are the not the actions of a hero. He should have been drummed out of the service.
He was outgunned at the Big Horn. And outsmarted by a proper soldier. Sitting Bull was a true American hero.

 

[mikegriffith1]

I vase the description on his previous actions. His forced overnight march of tired troops.
He abandoned injured soldiers or troopers with lame horses. At least one was captured and killed. What strategic purpose was served? Custer gor to spend the night with his wife. Thats it

Oh, boy. This is severe distortion. You might read T. J. Stiles' Pulitzer Prize-winning book Custer's Trials.

Those are the not the actions of a hero. He should have been drummed out of the service.

His commanding officers disagreed with you. They viewed him as one of the best cavalry officers in the U.S. Army. He arguably saved the Union cause at the Battle of Gettysburg by preventing Stuart's cavalry force from getting into Meade's rear. General Sheridan personally lobbied to get Custer included in the 1876 movement against the Sioux.

He was outgunned at the Big Horn. And outsmarted by a proper soldier. Sitting Bull was a true American hero.

Uh-huh, you don't know what you're talking about. FYI, Sitting Bull did not play a leading role at the Little Big Horn battle. He was too old to fight by that time. He stayed in the village and sent his nephews off to fight. Crazy Horse, Gall, and Two Moons were the main Indian leaders during the battle.

Sitting Bull was a vicious thug who terrorized other Indian tribes.

What are your sources for your tripe? Not the PBS documentary that you cite in the OP. I'm still trying to figure out how you could watch that documentary and then spew this propaganda.