452. Custer's Last Stand: The Battle of the Little Bighorn (Part 7)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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“You and I are going home today, and by a trail that is strange to us both…” The Battle of The Little Bighorn is one of the totemic moments of American frontier history. However, it is also mysterious, with the exact events of that blood-soaked day difficult to trace. On the 22nd of June, George Custer marched out with vague orders to drive the vast gathering of the Lakota and their allies, under the leadership of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, towards General Terry’s force, advancing from the South. Custer, keen as ever for a charge, was hoping to score a considerable defeat over the Native Americans in time for the 4th of July centenary. Then, on the evening of the 24th of June, Crow scouts reported that the Lakota’s trail had been found, and Custer launched into action. Marching his men through the night, they arrived at the encampment the following morning, shocked to discover a camp of thousands. At 3pm, the first force attacked, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, in all its horror and gore, had begun… Join Dominic and Tom they explore one of America’s most mythologised battles, separating fact from fiction, as they build up to George Custer’s last stand. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/restishistory Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! *The Rest Is History LIVE in 2024* Tom and Dominic are back onstage this summer, at Hampton Court Palace in London! Buy your tickets here: therestishistory.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Rest is History.
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0:10.7	That's rest is History Pod.com. Never, perhaps, has there been a more perfect example of the completeness of good fortune,
0:29.7	from his first appearance on the field of battle to his final and heroic death.
0:34.7	To Custer alone it was reserved to join a romantic life of perfect success to
0:41.0	a death of perfect heroism, to unite the splendors of austolids and thermopoli,
0:48.0	to charge like Murat, to die like Leonidas.
0:55.0	Throughout all time and the whole civilized world,
0:58.5	wherever the accounts of the war are red
1:01.2	in the glorious annals of our common country. There will be no brighter page
1:07.2	than that which relates the daring deeds of George A. Custer. Ohio is proud to claim him as her son and to exult in his name.
1:21.4	But he was the representative of the nation and defended her flag and the nation enrolls him among her heroes.
1:32.0	But her limits are too circumscribed to bound his fame. The time in which
1:39.0	he lived claims him as the new Leonidas with his noble kin slain in that wild thermoply of the west.
1:50.8	So stirring words, Dominic.
1:53.8	Incredibly stirring, Tom.
1:55.1	And they featured in an article written by Judge Richard Verhees
2:00.4	in the Ohio archaeological and historical
2:03.2	quarterly in 1906.
2:05.2	Yeah. But the good judge was actually ripping off.
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