Custer's Revenge
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Custer's Last Stand
Custer's death quickly became a kind of national obsession, a scrim upon which non indigenous americans could project their feelings and fantasies about the united states brutal war against native Americans. From the start, people thought custer was a fool who blundered into a massacre. But well into the twentieth century, more thought him a hero. Thes six thousand tes, six hundredfice the regiment's being sacrificed. That's a scene from 19 forty one's. They died with their boots on. Which started arro flynn as custer. He enters west point as an over confident dandy. By the time of his death, has grown into an honorable leader and a martyr
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