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Hopeless Endeavor
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(About the Little Bighorn massacre of George Armstrong Custer and his soldiers on June 25, 1876, as well as what happened to the Native Americans after their great victory.)
Lieutenant Colonel Custer failed to realize the grim and foreboding situation which awaited not only himself, but also many of his men as they approached the large village on this hot June day in 1876, and indeed it was an extremely fortunate stroke of good luck that the entire 7th Cavalry somehow managed to survive being completely annihilated as well. The past events regarding his cowardly attack on the mostly defenseless Washita River village would most definitely not be repeated this time around, for unlike what happened to Black Kettle's proud but doomed people in 1868, the Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Bighorn would turn the tables by making hundreds of soldiers pay dearly with their very lives!
Surrounded and greatly outnumbered,
Cut off from the rest of their unit, Two hundred plus men are slain, While the enemy screams in triumph, As dead soldiers are mutilated and scalped. Thus ending this violent clash of two cultures, Who were different yet equally determined, To succeed on this hot June day at any cost! Yet sudden victory on the battlefield, Surely meant eventually losing the war, As many are sent back to reservations, Or driven into Canada to suffer and starve. But on this infamous day of slaughter, All five companies were savagely butchered, As no remorse was shown to a hated enemy, Whose leader also meant his untimely demise!
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