SteveS wrote:On this date 142 years ago, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and the 7th Cavalry charged into battle against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians. Custer's orders had been to wait for reinforcements at the mouth of the Little Big Horn River before attacking the Indians, but Chief Sitting Bull had been spotted nearby, and Custer was impatient to attack. Within an hour, Custer and all of his troops had been killed by an overwhelming force.
Lots of books written about his life and the tragedy that ensued that day.
Almost the same thing that happened to him happened to Patton. A wildly successful military mind that had been battle tested and victorious. Loathed and discarded by politicians in Washington DC.
Imagine sending half of your troops and supplies off to be used as a trap to ensnare your enemy into a two fronted assault and when you call for them to attack you watch as they ride off and leave you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftff86JmD4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXr00Lfpwgk