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Free Download Custer Outgunned at the Little Bighorn: The Forgotten Story of How Sioux and Cheyenne Repeating Rifles Prevailed on June 25, 1876 by Phillip Thomas Tucker
English | July 31, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DBVHNJ6S | 99 pages | EPUB | 0.49 Mb
The causes of the unprecedented disaster at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer’s Last Stand", on June 25, 1876 has been long argued and debated, including to this day. But the most forgotten factor that explained Custer’s defeat was the superior weaponry used by the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. New evidence has revealed that the warriors were armed with hundreds of Winchester, Henry, and Spencer Repeating Rifles that made short work of the men of the 7th Cavalry, as they were armed with single-shot weapons and never stood a chance. This book has revealed the shocking truth about what most of all doomed Custer and his five companies of the 7th Cavalry to annihilation.

Free Download The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick, George Guidall, Penguin Audio
English | May 04, 2010 | ISBN: B003KQMG26 | 12 hours and 12 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 353 Mb
The best-selling author of Mayflower sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West.
Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer’s Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans’ defeat at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
In his tightly structured narrative, Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly sketches the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, whose charisma and political savvy earned him the position of leader of the Plains Indians, and George Armstrong Custer, one of the Union’s greatest cavalry officers and a man with a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage.

Free Download Adolfo Ovies, Al Kessel (Narrator), "The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac: From the Gettysburg Retreat Through the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864"
English | ASIN: B0D5FCHQ4K | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:33:00 | 372 MB
Once below the Potomac River, the Union troopers raced down the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains but were unable to prevent General Lee’s wounded Army of Northern Virginia from reaching Culpeper. The balance of 1863 was a series of maneuvers, raids, and fighting that witnessed the near-destruction of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade at Buckland Mills and the indecisive and frustrating efforts of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run campaigns. Alfred Pleasonton’s controversial command of the mounted arm ended abruptly, only to be replaced by the more controversial Philip H. Sheridan, whose combustible personality intensified the animosity burning between George Custer and Wesley Merritt.
Victory and glory followed the Cavalry Corps during the early days of the Overland Campaign. The spirited rivalry between Custer and Merritt took a turn for the worse and at Trevilian Station, the bitterness and rancor permeating their relationship broke into the open and made it into their official reports.
This well-researched and meticulously detailed account of the increasingly dysfunctional relationship between Custer and Merritt follows the same entertaining style as Ovies’s first installment. The Boy Generals will change the way Civil War enthusiasts understand and judge the actions of the Union’s bold riders.

Free Download The Real Custer: From Boy General to Tragic Hero (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00QMQLDZM | 2014 | 13 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 359 MB
Author: James S Robbins
Narrator: E. Roy Worley