…big talker

“There are not enough Indians

  in the world

  to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.”

General George Armstrong Custer  (1839-1876)

OK, let’s walk that one back a bit…

It wasn’t the quotation that got Custer in trouble.

Let’s talk about the Lakota and Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors—roughly 1,836 of them—at the Little Bighorn River in Montana on June 25, 1876…

Custer may have skipped a couple lectures at West Point, where he graduated at the bottom of his class (the “goat”) in 1861…he amassed 726 demerits, close to the school record.

No one cared about his West Point demerits at the Battle of Greasy Grass.

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