Word: custers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...armored cavalry of tanks and jeeps that replaced it, was phased out of the U.S. Army slowly, over a period of years that began in the early '40s and officially ended in 1950. But the end had begun much earlier. General George S. Patton, the most flamboyant cavalryman since Custer, had commanded tanks in World War I. And, of course, 1950 was not really the end. There were too many memories...
Harvard didn't play well last night, make no mistake about it. But don't underestimate the Sioux. General Custer did that...
...evening, there was little doubt over which team was playing the role of General Custer...
...that appealed to the President to negotiate their release. When one of the other hostages, Father Lawrence Jenco, a Roman Catholic relief-agency official, was freed by his captors in July, he carried with him a videotape recording of Jacobsen. On it, Jacobsen said he "felt like one of Custer's men," adding, "You know the end of their stories. Pray that ours will have a happier ending." In another videotape released last month, Jacobsen was highly critical of the Reagan Administration for having negotiated the release of Journalist Nicholas Daniloff in Moscow while refusing to make any deals...
...remains, many apparently buried in unmarked graves shortly after the battle, were discovered after a fire burned off the underbrush in 1983. Subsequent studies of uncovered bullets and shell casings indicated that Custer's 210 troopers were overwhelmed not just by numbers, as is usually thought, but also by superior firepower. Many of the thousands of Indians were equipped with Winchester and Henry repeating rifles, while the 7th Cavalry fought with outdated single-shot Springfields...