Custer

[Redheadthere]

in the 70s as a man utd fan, we used to sing to the opposition fans" you`re gonna get what general custer got. what really hapened to him, does anyone know?

[dot.hawkes]

he was killed at the battle of the Little Big Horn By the Sioux led by Chirf Sitting Bull. 1876

[mccfluff]

he bu**gered up basically

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/custer.htm

read more here

[Clanad]

General George Armstrong Custer and 210 men of the 7th U.S. Cavalry met their deaths at the hands of an overwhelming force of Dakota, Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapahoe warriors under the leadership of Tashunca Witco, (Crazy Horse), Tatanka Iyotanka, (Sitting Bull), Pizi, (Gall),and Ishaynishus (Two Moons), at the Battle of the Little Big Horn River which is in presnt day southern Montana...on June 25, 1876...

[heathfield]

If you really want to know about Custer, "Son of the Morning Star" is probably the most informative and readable book about his life, and the battle where he met his death. The title refers to the name the indians gave him, because of his blonde hair.

[Octavius]

Generally he just got beaten, so instead of shouting that on the terraces you might as well have thrown feathers at them.

[Lonnie]

What I find facinating about this battle, is the fact that the various Indian tribes co-operated with each other, which until then, they never had, and they never did again. Makes you wonder what might have happened had they done so.

[Clanad]

They weren't really cooperating in the usual sense of the term Lonnie. Most of the Indian combatants that were interviewed over the years (I've interviewed descendants of these men) didn't know they were being attacked and didn't know by whom. Keep in mind that just a week before they had fought General Crook to the south of the Little Big Horn Battlefield in present day Wyoming and they believed, intially, they were being attacked by Crook again. They met for the annual sundance which was a ritual lasting for several days. The Cheyenne, Lakota, Dakota and Arapahoe were loosley allied for many years, counting as their natural enemy, the Crow, who were acting as scouts for Custer as well as the othe columns involved. Tatanka Iyotanaka (Sitting Bull) usually depicted as a warrior chief, was in actuality a Holy Man to the Lakota Sioux. He had a vision two night before of Waisichu (white men) falling into the camp. He believed this was a premonition to the attack and he and his close relatives weren't all that surprised by the attack. However, most of the rest of the camp were totally surprised...

[Tatty Rollox]

... and here is General Custer and here is Sitting Bull .....

[dot.hawkes]

and here is the Little Big Horn:

http://i5.tinypic.com/12636z4.jpg

[Lonnie]

Thanks for the history lesson Clanad, it was obviously needed, what I put, was what a friend had told me, his father is American, and he also says, a Blackfoot Sioux. wait until I see him.

[Redheadthere]

yes, thank you all. you have all been very helpful. i thought he might have been scalped or something. no more answers now please.my mail box is bulging