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Post by herosrest on Nov 25, 2015 20:30:34 GMT -6
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Post by herosrest on Jun 1, 2016 11:11:00 GMT -6
Ducemus
The problem with timing 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn
Considerable research, endevour, grit, true grit, antipathy and pure artistic genius has fiddled dilligently upon the backs of trotting, galloping, walking and even stationary horses, to arrive at conclusions about the time of day at which Marcus A. Reno pulled his madcap stunt in Little Bighorn valley. We know with absolute certainty the date of the thing. This has never been challenged. Yet. The time of events can reasonably be estimated free of specific time and depending upon your flavour of heroics and who is not to blame for following their orders.
However, specific time continues to elude one and all, for ever more it also will. The reason is very simple and long in the record for those who do the research. One might assume that the records of the expedition which were left by Edward Maguire would have at some point during the last 140 years have been fully studied and understood. They have not been and within them is the pearl of knowledge which wastes all effort at critical analysis of the time of the place and in fact any specific time. During the column's march - the chronometers 'jumped' and were precisely USELESS for determining the time of the place or anywhere. That is why Terry and 7th Cavalry did not reset time at the Solstice and why they did not know accurate time other than as given before Whittaker introduced his immense complication of blaming Reno and Benteen.
The Chronometers jumped, were useless, and reported in Maguire's report. The only reliable times were computed by Stanton.
This simple reality has eluded historians and students of the battle, since 1876 and a small accident with Maguire's wagon. Such is the life. Read his reports.
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