My Life on the Plains or Personal Experiences with Indians
Custer's Memoir of His Campaigns Against the Indian Tribes of the Western Plains
The memoirs of the most famous American cavalrymanThose who pursue fame are occasionally fated to acquire it for reasons other than those of their ambitions. So it is with George Armstrong Custer who is principally renowned for being swiftly eradicated with most of his command on the final day of his career in the 'last stand' on the Little Big Horn. That end has been made the more ignominious since there is an abiding view that he was responsible for it. There was, inevitably, much more to the man than this and whilst his passions for fame, status and glory are acknowledged, the fact remains that Custer was a dashing, brave, dynamic officer…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84677-961-9
- EAN: 9781846779619
- Produktnummer: 6558924
- Verlag: Leonaur
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 452 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.6 cm 599 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 599
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GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER (1839-1876), a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars, was possibly the most notorious Indian fighter the army had known. Already famous during his life, he died leading his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
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