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Yes. General Terry offered him a battery of six Gatling Guns. Custer refused them on the grounds that they would slow him, and they would have. They were heavy and mounted on an artillery carriage. Thirty years later, gas-operated machine guns were available which could be packed on the back of a cavalry horse, and these were used in the Russo-Japanese War. The Gatling Guns could have prevented Custer's Last Stand because the hostiles knew better than to attack them, but of course Custer did not foresee such an outcome when he turned down command of these weapons.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe 7th Cavalry had a battery of Gatling Guns that Custer left behind because they too heavy and slow moving to keep up with the rest of the regiment.
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