Suprise attack.

Surprise Surprise attack.

Also in that movie it showed clusters luck when he is cloth hanged off the bike

You placed the explanation mark in the wrong place buckero.

Antonìe Loñdon Ramìrez lol what is an explanation mark??

Christian Cruz this!

I had Covid 19 at the time and I wasn't feeling well. Yours sincerely, General George Armstrong Custard.

@@LDJ42069 !

Was it rotten on the inside? Or displaced by corporate interests?

That’s messed up because I jokingly told my coworker a couple months ago if he wanted to make an ice cream shop called that.

Also, one of the many great gags in West of Loathing

We have one in Cincinnati.

So not being reinforced was his fault? Did they tell you that after this generals had a huge amount of power taken away? They no longer can choose where to go and whom to reinforce.

@@jaceseldom8236 We studied His command decisions. His operations planning and strategy. His decisions once the attack was underway. At every turn he systematically ignored information and failed to adapt his attack accordingly. He made everything mistake in the book, made a complete hash of it, and got his entire command slaughtered.

@@patraic5241 but would the same thing of happened if he was reinforced? Everyone failed in this operation.

@@jaceseldom8236 The scope of our analysis was his decisions. Were there other factors that might have made a difference? Probably. Would it have prevented the crushing defeat? Personally I doubt it. Not with the way he so totally underestimated the Sioux and botched the attack planning.

@@winterleia9027 He was much more badly outnumbered than you think. The Sioux encampment was enormous. Far larger than most people would believe then or today. There are no hard numbers available of course. However, it's most likely there were between 3,000 and 5,000 Warriors in the Sioux encampment. US doctrine, even at that time, is that you don't attack without 2:1 odds in the open or 3:1 against a prepared defense. This is the single biggest intelligence failure of the battle as far as the US Army is concerned. Custer was also counting on the element of Surprise. Which was blown when Sioux hunting parties spotted the troopers hours before they were in position. It didn't help that Custer ordered his men to leave their sabers behind in an effort to move quietly. Not that it would have mattered in the end. There were more than enough Sioux to block, and then encircle, every column of attack as it came in. Custer pushed way to close to the encampment to have a prayer of falling back as Reno did. You are right that he split his command in the face of being totally outnumbered. If he had remained concentrated he would have stood a real chance of pulling back with most of his command intact.

You sound very sure

Quak toons it’s only been 3 minutes of the video going out the videos 12 minutes long now stop trying to get subs from comments

The number's beyond comprehension

@@Sea-zu4bj the guys facts are f***** up

@@Sea-zu4bj its math(probability). If there where some there will be others.

hahhahahaha

It's actually fun when the lady is on top of you. Maybe her father caught them when she was playing the cowgirl and got angry about the fact.

😆🤣😂

He was just embarrassed about his 1600 year era outfits that he wear in mid 1800's.

Nice POTC reference.

So you think Benedict Arnold is better!

@@coolchange954 Mike Pence?????? benedict arnolds grand son?

How big a stick?

No biggier than the one you use

Wait that was him 😂

@@colby9529 yeah it is 😂😂

Brooo I totally forgot about that movie. That movie made my childhood

😂😂😂

PHAHAHAHAHA

I noticed that too!

What a ledg

17th century = 1800s

@@SlimeTracks Nope 17th century = 1600s

@@SlimeTracks it's always 100 years behind.

He said that first part

@@CanadioIsCool Yeah, but he was literally released from the stockade straight to the front in 1861. Without the Civil War, Custer is kicked out of the Army in disgrace.

@@brianeleightonDo you not understand my reply? I MEANT THAT HE SAID "He finished dead last in his class" IN VIDEO!

@@CanadioIsCool grumpy

@@joshm3257 no u

Yup

Or Leroy Jenkins

discorperted ...what...??? Stooopid

@skullpull 101 yeah you need bold leaders but also cautious careful planers they balance each other out

Don’t you mean a piece of CUSTERd I will apologize for nothing

@@YouveBeenMegged that was clever

@@DiegoTheRebel Thanks

"The cake is a lie." -- Little Big Man at the Little Big Horn

Hold my beer

Lieutenant Colonel. His final brevet (temporary) rank in the Civil War was a major general.

Custer was used by President Grant to solve the "Indian problem". Custer wanted to bring the gatling guns but wouldn't be able to meet the timetable that Grant had established for him if he had to lug the guns behind him. I think Grant deserves as much as the blame as Custer. At that point in his career, Custer wanted to retire and hit the lecture circuit in Philadelphia, New York and Washington.

I believe he was technically defying orders by fighting this battle actually.

@@ethanweeter2732 Not really. Terry’s orders were to find the Indians and return. But he including a caveat so he wouldn’t get any blame; he told Custer that if the conditions were right, to attack. Which he knew Custer would do anyway.

Custer definitely got what he had coming to him.

@@hubbs5759 Thanks for your insightful comment. You may want to read the other comments and compare theirs with yours.

Actually, his last words were "We've caught them napping!"

@just me "whi peepo bad"

Custers last words: OH HI GUYS, I SEE YOU BROUGHT YOUR FRIENDS, IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE?

No Custers last words were OUCH

.

they have to much men i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore give me all your men so i can lose i mean win

*_Dude! So Uncool_*

You know what old buddy, old pal. You're fired

THE COMMUNIST CHANNEL” we didn’t lose”

@@thegenuinehamslice3944 .

Ironically, the movie was actually accurate😂 Custer was debatably the best cavalry commander in the Civil War, and was known to his superiors as a daring and clever commander.

Great comment. Everyone just loves to slam Custer. Forgetting entirely his incredible service for the Union.

But there are basic aspects of military leadership, and tactical competence that are expected from the officers in the lead. In this case, he failed to listen to his scouts who reported that trail sign alone indicated a major concentration of Native Americans. THEN, he failed to confirm or deny by a personal recce. He split his force in the face of an enemy who was AT LEAST his size, if not larger. He failed to ensure his troopers were issued more ammo, as they were about to go into a fight, regardless of numbers. He failed to concentrate his forces thus they were strung out all along the ridgeline and in Reno's case down in the valley; where they could not mutually support each other. AFA Command climate he was, arrogant, short with his company commanders and put himself exactly where he could not influence the fight once joined.

ur fired

Code Roser is your prof pic that fairy eating thing from a movie?

@@kevinhartmemes3821 from pan's labyrinth? Yes it is.

@Lance May total horseshit..

Very true..

Are you an ICSE STUDENT??

He was.

Was just thinking this

Nailed it

At least he has bison

👍😂

Under rated comment

Interesting

This mistake basically won't happen again. We reached a point in human history where firearms vs cold weapons won't happen in mass battle. In fact, the last time I'm aware of it is in China during WWII and I'm not even sure the size of some Chinese militia using cold weapons vs Japanese with firearms.

@@Seriona1 No, human stupidity can overcome all. In the last 150 years Afghanistan has been invaded by the British (twice), the Soviets and the western allies. Each time the opposition was underestimated and the results are history.

@@madgeordie4469 That has nothing to do with what I said....at all.

@@Seriona1 No, I am speaking of the military failing of underestimating the enemy. You are claiming that this could not happen again because of developments in weapon design. You are the one who has gone off the point here.

General Sheridan was born there too, as was General George Crook. I'm from Ohio myself, and I have visited Grant's birthplace, Custer's birthplace, and both Sherman's and Sheridan's birthplace. Two personal heroes of mine were born in Ohio: George Armstrong Custer, and the greatest Native leader that ever lived - Tecumseh of the Shawnee.

Take this channel for what it is...a joke.

bloodshed for money

I call him a “person who deserved to die in a terrific way”

i love that movie. I'm half oglala and half sicangu.

Is there any eyewitness testimony as to WHEN during the battle Custer was killed ? I wonder if was he alive long enough at the so-called "last stand" to see his blunder ?

@@touranzohdy3251 Custer's body was found at the top of Last Stand Hill, so he most likely was still alive by the time he began his retreat up to the time his column began to collapse and was eventually overwhelmed.

In the series you mention Kate Big Head talks about Custer child being a blonde haired girl that died young, actually the child if his.. was a male and lived to be 20.. Captain Tom Custer had an illegitimate son, and he was treated for V.D. during the Civil War, so that shoots down Jeffrey Wert,s belief you cant have children if you had VD

Back in the day, grabbing the enemy's colours and returning them to one's own lines were enough to be awarded that medal. Major Smedley Butler was awarded the Medal of Honor during the occupation of Vera Cruz, together with... 56 other military personnel from the Army, Marine Corps and Navy. Butler tried to return his medal because he said he hadn't done anything to deserve it but higher ups told him to shut up and keep the medal.

Yeah back then the Medal of Honor didn’t have the same weight.

@@makerstudios5456 yeah they also really just gave them out like candy smh

Mummy Enthusiast If you don’t believe me google how many medals of honor were given out to the soldiers at Wounded Knee and what they are for. These practices change over time.

What does the US know about honour? It's the country created by the American genocide Brits started.

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Correct, he was a Colonel.

@@owenwilson912 Oh

You're ignorant. The US ORDERED him to do it, wdym not a US General? Have fun saying that to the Native Americans today.

whats your point? are you insinuating that his actions werent legal?

Agreed

ikr

Commander Shephard saved the galaxy dude. Died twice for the galaxy

“History is written by the victors”. “I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye and the world just freaking watched”

lol

There was a surplus of Generals at the end of the American Civil War, resulting in many demotions.

In the service, officers hold both temporary and permanent ranks. Typically the permanent rank is lower than the temporary rank which one gains during wartime... and most officers are reduced to their permanent rank in peacetime.

Custer's rank of Maj Gen was a "brevet" rank. Brevet is awarded for bravery, but it is temporary in nature. He was LtCol by regular rank. So, he wasn't demoted. He reverted to regular rank. This is normal and not a punishment.

Brevet rank != Permanent Rank

Major general was a brevet rank only *. . .*

That was Pickett not Lee.

Thought I was the only one!!!

@@468erpeashooter9 probably the most recognition i have ever gotten and will ever get

Tony Catalano yeah until the Indians caught the real horns weeks later

XD

Why

Oh

USSR: *dont look at me* And yes I know that the soviet union didnt exist back then.

@TheOGGamer0428 Xbox-Minecraft no one said it doese though

@TheOGGamer0428 Xbox-Minecraft cant i see what

TheOGGamer0428 Xbox-Minecraft the true idiot is the one who refuses to argue

McClellan and McArthur both have Custer beat in the stupidity department

I wouldn't say instrumental it was more like at the right place at the right time kind of deal he litteraly graduated last if it were not for the civil war he wouldn't of been in the army. Bassicly he was just really lucky.

@@Demicleas ...you can say the same about any general or historical figure, then..."just in the right place at the right time". in reality, Custer was a sensational general whose accomplishments are more historically significant than biased modern interpretations would suggest.

@@nikoc8968 People don't realize he was the unsung hero of Gettysburg, took on a force way bigger then his and stopped the north from being completely flanked by the confederacy

@@Demicleas "Lucky", that's funny. Maybe he carried a rabbit's foot too, always avoided the number 13, never walked under ladders, and avoided breaking mirrors at all costs. You're an idiot.

@@nikoc8968 Yes!

Finally someone who can think for himself

@@raymonddonahue7282 lucky racist

A war criminal who got what he deserved

The last samurai?

“Beautiful everyone”

@@scottdamon677 yep

That's a quality film

Yes, he was a murderer who executed the plans of the government..

gamer7234 I caught that too 😂

I was expecting Douglas MacArthur

@@rylanholt9258 oversimplified reference

No kidding

Yes, I agree. McClellan was by far the worst general. Even after he was fired, he still tried to lose the war for the Union by running for president on a platform of peace when total destruction of the Confederacy was practically assured. An incompetent loser and a coward almost to the point of treason.

Lol

Lack of officers during major conflict.

He captured the most enemy equipment and battle flags in the civil war

Youd have to understand the spirit of military at the time. He certainly wasnt the dumbest, he blundered badly and underestimated the Lakota spirit.

Axor Unknown he was smart and daring . Plenty of armies overcame the numbers disadvantage that he had before his doom , so you can blame his death on his own soldiers that failed him that day , and the lack of reinforcements.

This video is intentionally trying to make him look bad and did very little research. He was known for carefully scouting areas and then personally leading the charges himself (generals don't do that). Surprise, speed, and aggression made him victorious many times, and he fought in several major battles in the Civil War. He was promoted to General (by age 23) because the Union was looking for officers to fight the enemy, not advance their own political careers. The Union Army was plagued by bad career officers while Custer had the experience. He also had a successful career after the war, mostly against Indian tribes. This video is covering events from the early 1860s to the late 1870s. There is also more about the battle than the video showed. His regiment wasn't wiped out, just the portion he led into battle. Yes, this was a loss for the Army, and Custer was killed, but it was due to poor coordination and overwhelming numbers. This battle is highly criticized because everybody thinks he could have done things differently. But he didn't have the information we have today and used tactics that have been highly successful. In my opinion, this battle comes down to "you win some, you lose some."

Mate, I feel so sorry for the French Army during WW2. You lot had over 100 divisions. You could have EASILY rolled the Germans up with our help, but Generals were too stuck in the past to realise that.

Your Average Scotsman if the Belgians had allowed the French to complete the magiot line , the war would’ve won in 1941.

French intelligence: generals the Germans have a lot of motorized vehicles lined up outside the Ardennes French High Command: that’s preposterous, you can’t move vehicles through the Ardennes. Don’t change a single thing (That’s an actual fact btw)

They still had Calvary!

@@justjust5580 French generals be like "it's just a motor show, totally not preparing for an assault"

A little correction if you don't mind :p, powdered wigs were 18th century fashion, Custer & confederate cavalry general J.E.B Stuart evokes the 17th century cavalier persona with wide-brimed hats & boots.

I probably sound like an anachronism but. How dare that scumbag wear the style of the heroic Cavaliers they already knew that they couldn’t win but it was a divine right thing that some people still believe in I know because I am one of them

@@alundavies8402 he was a brilliant general

racist

Errol Flynn played Custer in the 1941 movie " They died with their boots on " The end was sort of made up.

@@MPeaches1958 Don't split an outnumbered force for starters and keep ego in check

I was there too. Ate a buffalo burger at the diner across the street.

gulasd3025 cool

blood rave Like Lee did at Chancellorsville?

My Canadian dad once visited the Little Bighorn battlefield when a fat man with a deep southern accent piped up and said "I always wanted to see where that Yankee died!"

Funny how in the civil war 2LT made BG after 1-2 years at like 24/25 years old. Madness glad they got sorted back down after the war, or else it would be very lopsided and hard to promote (it already was hard enough back then)

General Sherman once complimented Custer's rashness and said it was a good trait for a cavalry officer who needed to think quickly.

I was just thinking about how great of a movie this would be. A scrappy young hero that the audience loves at first but the heroism slowly falls out until greed for power gets the best of him and he leads his last charge

That would be so call

No.

He won't. Only ridley Scott can make it

This is not movie material, it's a too rich story with too many moving parts, spanning decades. A 10 episode mini series of 10 hours can get it done properly.

Well written👍. He turned down extra men and Gatling Guns! His ego got the better of him. He wanted victory for himself and HIS 7th Calvary only.

Had he retired after the Civil War, he would have went down as a real hero.

@@jasona9 Give facts regarding"he turned down Gatlin Guns"because he didn't turn down Gatlin guns. When posting make sure you have some sort of knowledge on facts which you clearly are lacking in.

No, a fellow general who was supposed to reinforce him didn't show

Actually he was close to victory, but his Captains failed to save him.

Same

Be sure to include the stabbing of his ears with sewing needles so he would hear better in the afterlife

Isn’t school out?

Jamal Brown schooling is being done online

Helios Sphere for some reason other schools call it social studies. Mine included

Hence the title had a question mark in it.

Thanks, i will

He was dumb enough to charge into a village of 2000 Sioux warriors lol

Zane Pain They didn’t know how many people were in that village, thus meaning he can’t be called dumb for that, he can never be called dumb, he just made a mistake, we all make mistakes so by your logic, everyone is dumb

Crusader King custer was arrogant but dumb is perspective. He did finish last in his class at WestPoint. Look up the oral history of the battle of little big horn told by a native American. Very interesting. The people were suprised by custer and attacked immediately. It lasted 10 minutes

Their barbarity didn't help their cause.

@@ottson You say that like the colonizers didn’t scalp natives for money and slaughter them by the millions

@@russellmellott452 slaughter by the millions? What kind of source told you millions?

@@noahs9866 12M killed since Europeans found America in 1492.

@@Heathledger627 majority of those weren't killed by violence but by small pox. The hidden killer was the most dangerous.

I thought it was only me

Me too

I hate it so much😓

I used to hate it,but now I am used to the new place.

@@thechosenone1533 Finally.

“I’m not Dumb I just failed to be smart!”

That's dumb though. So is shooting your own horse in the back of the head on accident while riding it. A contributing factor to his seemingly revolving door of horses lol.

He used hostages as human shields? Wow.

John-Peter Warren the point of his mission was hostage taking

bojo perez ridiculous. Ever heard of war chiefs? Warriors?

Thun Dara ridiculous. You have no clue about the Indian wars. Check Dog Soldiers, warchiefs of the Washita.

You my friend, is very intriguing

Yes, but 11 of his horses were shot! Let’s say you 2 times more likely to have your horse shot then you getting shot, just due to size. Still, he is really lucky that his horses got shot 11 times and didn’t get seriously injured. That’s pretty lucku

ccityplanner12 : Simply amazing

Your theory is outstanding

Someones gonna get laid in college

I went there a couple of years ago, a buckets list thing to travel from the UK to do. I couldn't agree more with you summary of the Benteen/Reno position. They had a defensible spot from which they were pinned, to leave would have been near suicidal. The one thing that has always puzzled me is the grave markers for the Custer position. If that is indeed where they made their last stand it was awful, the side of a steep incline a few feet from the crest, a half blind man with a bent rifle barrel could have picked them off. The flat top although not perfect would of at least given better protection, it's the one aspect I just didn't get. An interesting place I'd visit again.

@@rialobran Well, considering they were in full flight, being chased by the native Americans, they didn't have much of a choice. Last Stand Hill is at the far end of the ridge, and with flat open terrain on three sides and the Plains Indians closing in from behind, they had nowhere else to go. You also have to consider that the US Cavalry horses were likely exhausted after galloping for 2-3 miles, while the Plains horses would have been much fresher, having travelled half that distance. Once their section of the army was routed, I think their only chance would have been to get out of the wash they were in and move northeast into the hills, more or less back in the direction they came from. But they didn't, and so were trapped.

@@rialobran Version I heard from Indian sources was the Custer fight was over "in the time it takes a hungry man to eat his dinner", so the impression is while some of the Sioux were firing on Custer's position, others were sneaking in via the dead ground. The Indian source suggests these infiltrators basically opened fire from point-black range and annihilated Custer's position in a few ragged volleys, then picked off the survivors at their leisure.

There was a big brush fire a while back 80s and probably even during the battle, so stop your armchair gen.

@@lordofthewasteland4525 What "armchair generalling" is there to be found in repeating verbatim what someone else is reported to have said? I think you misunderstand the term, champ.

His Civil War record showed that he indeed was an aggressive, quick thinking and very competent cavalry leader who was adored by both his soldiers and superiors.

No he was a reckless Commander He never did proper reconnaissance That cost him at Little Bighorn His troops to not like him he was referred to as iron bottom

@@jamesricker3997 That’s why he had scouts out in the van inspecting the lay of the land. His methods that day were Army SOP for fighting Indians.

@Linda Terrell. Too bad he ignored his scouts at Little Big Horn and got his men slaughtered.

@@xaviervega468 Read again. He didn’t ignore them. The crow advised attacking “now” or lose them. In fact, he argued with them over it. He was going to stand pat overnight and attack the next day. Then word came back that the regiment had been “discovered.”

What about if you knew it as "the battle of little big horn"?

WTF?

The Hand Exactly. I believe a similar thing happened in WWII. Weird note, the SS did this as well, but in reverse: men would have a high rank in the regular SS (often due to sycophantic behaviour rather than skill), and would be given a Waffen SS rank more suitable to their experience and skill when they were transferred to the armed branch.

Battlefield promotion

His permanent rank was Captain.

He made the mistake saying Custer was promoted to lieutenant Colonel, but he was a Brigadier General at the time.

Not a mistake. As the above comments collectively state. Custer was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel following the Civil War. He received a battlefield promotion (brevet promotion) during the Civil War to Brigadier General. Following the war, he reverted to his rank of Captain. He was then promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, the rank he held when he died at LBH.

One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.

tomasz zalewski I completely agree

Maybe more accurately, it was a deserved massacre.

Definition of “massacre” as per Oxford dictionary: “An indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.” R u even trying m8?

@@tomaszzalewski4541 -Stalin

Well said.

Okay but who would break treaties all the time after peace and what side always had to the custom of taking their anger out on the women and kids and sending them to the Spanish territories of the Caribbean? OH and tell me what side would instead make the enemies women and kids part of their side most of the time. You are ignorant go do more history research instead of always checking the white washed side dumb kid

You think so? 😅 what do you think of my traditional Lakota name? Zuyá Gli. It’s translated to “He Came Home Unscathed”

Crazy horse most have been an interesting character to get a name like that.

So is Sioux, name your son that

We shortened Crazy Horse's name. In Oglala Lakota, his name was The Man Who's Horse Is Crazy.

Try out Oversimplified

If you want accurate unbiased info I reccomend Kurgeist (might have spelled it wrong)

This is an awesome channel... BUT... I would DEFINITELY use this as a supplement and NOT the end all, be all of a lesson.

Bro the battle took place in North Dakota so this isn’t the best way to learn

@@Adaptationz_ Well, it's still better than school.

Where did Custer do that at during the civil war? Defeat 4000 confederates with 400 men? Not saying he didn't, just never knew this?

@@jimmiekeeling925 Gettysburg.

A superior force of women and children?????

@@lednails capturing women and children in camp at Washita was how he got the Cheyenne warriors to surrender without breaking into a prolonged fire fight and sustaining casualties. IDK, sounds like something Sun Tzu would approve of to me.

@@jerikromero1746 he killed woman and children he was a coward

@@D0nnyy Yes, because killing thousands of men on the battlefield is more noble than taking a few hundreds of women and children as captive in order to avoid further bloodshed. Who teaches you this "moral"?

@@jerikromero1746 Indeed, It was genius. But Custer took most of the women and children captive before his regiment was threatened by other tribes further downriver. As warriors from these other tribes (more Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho...) began to surround his regiment, Custer ordered his men to position the captives close around the regiment. It was an ingenious idea, and Custer thought of it on the quick. He then made a feint, as if his regiment was going to attack, and all the warriors from all the other tribes hightailed it out of there. As Sun Tzu writes: "Always do what your enemy doesn't expect you to do".

He would challenge him then not engage at all.

No I merely failed to win!

Douglas McArthur: I accept that challenge

@@anteres2123 lol

Or Burnside

Pizzaguy173 he was trying to kidnap women and children to use them for leverage to negotiate with the Indians for them to rejoin the others on the reservation. Not saying either is right.

Pizzaguy173 no. He had to get them into reservation

Pizzaguy173 that’s US history in a nutshell

Sometimes trying to massacre a refugee camp doesn't go as planned.

@@MS-dp9up Reservations are one of the worst things that you could possibly due to a tribe. It stripes their dignity, and their freedom from them. They only tried to protect themselves from people who did not care about what they wanted.

Brevet Major General, Lieutenant Colonel, as correctly inscribed on the marker placed by the US Army at the LBH.