Re: [Epic] Unified Theory of GW

From: Brian Douglas <bdouglas_at_...>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 15:28:39 PDT

On Mon, 12 May 1997 08:52:54 -0400 (EDT) David Lado wrote:

 

> >You have to remember that the Afghanis embarrassed one of the
greatest
> >powers of the nineteenth century (British Empire) too.
> >
> >I don't think the plains Indians who fought Custer were that
primitive at
> >all. I remember reading somewhere that the Indians had large
amounts of
> >rifles, and in some cases, superior weapons that they robbed from
white
> >settlers.
>
> Actually, now that you mention it, the plains indians (the Sioux, I
think)
> were armed with a significant number of winchester-type repeating
rifles
> while Custers cavalry were still armed with civil-war era
muzzle-loaders.
>
> David

Yeah, yeah, here we go. And I suppose they had help from 2 gauls and a
dog, so, basically, you were outnumbered...

*MAJOR GRIN*
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