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  2. Gatling gun - Wikipedia

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    Gatling guns were famously not used at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as "Custer's Last Stand", when Gen. George Armstrong Custer chose not to bring Gatling guns with his main force. In April 1867, a Gatling gun was purchased for the Argentine Army by minister Domingo F. Sarmiento under instructions from president Bartolomé Mitre ...

  3. Battle of the Little Bighorn - Wikipedia

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    General Terry and others claimed that Custer made strategic errors from the start of the campaign. For instance, he refused to use a battery of Gatling guns and turned down General Terry's offer of an additional battalion of the 2nd Cavalry. Custer believed that the Gatling guns would impede his march up the Rosebud and hamper his mobility.

  4. George Armstrong Custer - Wikipedia

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    Custer's defenders, however, including historian Charles K. Hofling, have asserted that Gatling guns would have been slow and cumbersome as the troops crossed the rough country between the Yellowstone and the Little Bighorn. [150] Custer rated speed in gaining the battlefield as essential and more important.

  5. Talk:Battle of the Little Bighorn/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    the army of 1876 would have considered gatling guns as artillery, there was no tactical equivalent of a machine gun at the time. the two gun artillery section of gatling guns (of a 6 or 8 gun battery) was served by 20th Infantry soldiers, however, on condemned cavalry mounts. the terrain is completely unsuited for wheeled vehicles.

  6. 7th Cavalry Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The battle was the longest the 7th Cavalry had fought in World War II, and it would be their last. After pulling out of the combat zone on 4 July, The regiment began to rest and refit as it prepared for the inevitable invasion of the main Japanese islands. On 20 July, the 7th Cavalry again reorganized—this time entirely under Infantry Tables ...

  7. Custer's Last Stand (wargame) - Wikipedia

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    Custer can choose to hang about waiting for powerful reinforcements, or he can make an immediate foray, with the chance of some victory points but a very grave danger of repeating history." [4] The game provides some optional "what if?" rules: What if Custer's force had been armed with Gatling guns or field artillery? What if Custer's ...

  8. List of World War II weapons of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Various firearms used by the United States military during World War II, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax County, Virginia. The following is a list of World War II weapons of the United States, which includes firearm, artillery, vehicles, vessels, and other support equipment known to have been used by the United States Armed Forces—namely the United States Army, United ...

  9. William W. Belknap - Wikipedia

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    However, Custer had also decided against bringing Gatling guns; these would have increased Custer's firepower, even if his troops had been armed with inferior rifles.) [48] Belknap's second wife, Carita, was socially ambitious and unwilling to live in Washington, D.C., on Belknap's $8,000 annual salary (about $157,000 in 2018). [44]