These multi-part character studies, are exactly where Tom and Dominic shine. Such a delight.

I'm loving these podcasts. You guys talk about history with such knowledge but also such wonderful humour.

@LS-xs7sg

11 күн бұрын

Das right slim but The thing about the old days is... they are the old days

These epidodes, with their forked beards and forked tongues, have had me enthralled for every minute. Thank you both very much, and Theo, too, of course.

Great new topic choice. I have to say again those four Lord Byron episodes were super 👍🇿🇦

Beginning with a quote from Sir Harry Paget Flasman, VC. That was an instant subscribe.

Been fascinated with Custer for four decades now. I even served with the 7th Cavalry on the DMZ in Korea.

So entertaining, thankyou both. How fortunate we are to have all the photos of the Civil War, almost all deeply shocking illustrations of what war truly is but also examples of the US Army uniforms, Custer's being unique. Great episode.

I’ve enjoyed your podcasts on Spotify, but it’s so nice to see your faces and your interactions with each other. Bravo!

I was hoping you would bring up Flashman and the Redskins. It was one of my favorite of the series. Yes, I have them all.

An incredibly good listen. Looking forward to the next segment!

Really love the podcasts . Each one is very interesting. The hosts are excellent and have great banter . Tom's impressions are brilliant

Best duo in history. These two are in top form

I love these podcasts so much.

30 seconds in and I’ve already subscribed

This is excellent I love this stuff

Discussion of Custer's military virtues reminds me of other similar controversies, e.g., Omar Bradley vs. George Patton, or even the battlefield brilliance or lack of it of Edward IV. Edward always did the same thing, essentially: outmarch his opponents to force battle on them when they didn't feel ready, then lead from the front on foot, relying on his brother Richard and others to take care of the flanks. But that will to force battle is an absolutely key to winning. Trying to be clever isn't. Grant understood this. If he couldn't convince his subordinates of the plausibility of more complex moves, he would abandon them and stick to the frontal assault. People have to be all-in to win, so keeping the plan simple is usually best.

First like! Just in time to watch during tea

This is excellent, I usually get pretty bored with civil war era history, but this has been compelling!

Definitely earned a subscriber! Such a good In depth video!

The two of you are just brilliant so enjoyable. Thx

Yeh-haw !

Bit of trivia. A handful of survivors from that encounter were Italian; either enlisted in the American army or observers from the newly unified Italian Royal army.

@eshaibraheem4218

Күн бұрын

Interesting. Did any of them write about it?

Anytime someone mentions native Indians, I always think of The Simpsons with Crazy Talk 😅😅😅😅😅

You are not at home Tom, where are you? Trying to read the book titles for a clue, but most are upside down!

would love to hear your take on sir Richard Francis Burton gents. love your work.

I've visited the battlefield. Do so, if you can because it's a remarkable place with a remarkable story to tell. Go in June, when the battle happened because it is a beautiful country and easy to understand why the Lakota and Cheyenne fought so hard to keep it.

Parallels between Reno & benteen at LBH and Chard & Bromhead at Rorke's drift?

Thumbnail is very unfair to Tom

@jimb9063

22 күн бұрын

It might be referring to his bowling action.

Cavalrymen are famously eccentric and impulsive.

Great stuff. I have a Libbey Custer story. Custer's last command post was Fort Abraham Lincoln on the opposite bank of the Missouri River from Bismarck, ND. He and his wife, Libbey, had a large house on the post and she saw him off when he left for the last time. About 30-40 years ago the ND Historical Society rebuilt the house and tours are available. There are stories that Libbey haunts the house. Her ghost is mischievous and is a poltergeist. She moves things around to "play" with the staff there. Obviously this is denied by the officials there. But multiple people who have worked there still insist its true.

It is considered possible that Ely Parker's comment was added by Parker's nephew Arthur C. Parker, his first biographer.

Im just here for the American accents that Tom tries to pull off.

52:33 Someone... Anyone... Clip this 🤣

🤬 I caught up and I’m gonna have to wait for the next episode or pay-treon… they hooked me on free crack

There used to be a sign that said “stay in NORTH DAKOTA Custer was healthy when he Left”

If you're gonna tell me that Errol Flynn's They Died With Their Boots On is not the absolute truth, I will never watch The Rest Is History Again

@humblescribe8522

21 күн бұрын

"Butler! Queen's own Butler!"

@jeffboyer2747

21 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

Any reason why the videos come much later than the podcasts? I’d rather watch the video but the podcast series is already an episode ahead

Custer had the enormous advantage of leaving a young attractive widow who spent the next half century creating and polishing his image...

I have only listened to the audio version of your podcast and seen pictures of you both, and in my head I had attributed the wrong voices to each of you. Suffice to say this was a very uncanny watch! I think I might go back to imagining swapped-around voices as I originally was 😂

Today we would have no hesitation in diagnosing George Custer as a narcissist. All the signs are there. He pretended to be a nice, fun person but he wasn’t. I think he chose Elizabeth to be his wife because she was a good, quiet decent person that he could manipulate and control, as narcissists do. They spent most of their marriage apart so she never got to find out what it would have been like to live with him every day. Of course he was a hero in her eyes, she never got the chance to see him as he really was.

Red cloud descendants still live on pine ridge res north dskota . Tom do vkntact them Sure they would love to share stories about their great great grandfather. Red cloud

Most Americans didn’t want to free the slaves-both in the north and the south. As a southern from Ga, a lot of people in the south were worried about the economy in the event slaves were freed. I am not trying to whitewash history but if you read about cotton and the total GDP that it account for in the south-they were worried that the economy would collapse. Yes, there were some straight up racist that believed in white supremacy but it wasn’t across the board. Lincoln’s initial emancipation did not free the slaves in the northern states. Even Lincoln didn’t want to free them in his own states-freeing them in the south was a pointless act at the time. Furthermore, Virginia had 3 separate votes in secession-the 1st two votes virgina voted to stay in the union. Only after Lincoln called up 75,000 volunteers did Virginia vote to leave the union.

Christ on a bike, this is good.

As always, I enjoyed this tremendously. But Custer, while dashing, was a failure as a Cavalry commander (and a bit of a fool, to be honest). Perhaps Dominic and Tom might like to look at the career of General Philip Sheridan, also a Calvary commander with the Union Army during the American Civil War. Shelby Foote in his great narrative history of that war said of him he was one of only two geniuses to emerge during that war from either side. The other was Abraham Lincoln. And, in case you think Foote was being biased, he was a Southerner who clearly could not stop his admiration of the Confederate army showing through, try as he might.

@fuferito

21 күн бұрын

Foote's other notable genius of the American Civil War, besides Lincoln, was Nathan Bedford Forrest, not Philip Sheridan.

@podoherty2

21 күн бұрын

@@fuferito 🤔You could be right. I'll double check.

@fuferito

21 күн бұрын

@@podoherty2, There's that anecdote by Foote where he telephones Forrest's granddaughter, and got invited to her home, and got to swing the cavalry commander's sword which, he said, was "a great treat."

@podoherty2

21 күн бұрын

Fab

@podoherty2

21 күн бұрын

I sit (bad knees) corrected. Nathan Bedford Forrest was the other genius identified by Shelby Foote. Apropos of nothing other than a cute thing to know, Daniel Craig, apparently, based his accent in Knives Out on Foote.

His name will always make me think about the delicious pouring sauce I cover my apple pie with.

Didnt the colonel forget the gattling guns??

Dominic potentially lives in a Waterstones??

Cautious commanders seldom win. They should remain staff officers.

No Habsburg video?

@citizen916

22 күн бұрын

Feel free to write it yourself.

@zeroconnection

22 күн бұрын

@@citizen916 Just disappointed that they didn't put Habsburg episode with Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen (episode 445) on KZread. There was nothing malign about what I wrote and plan watching future episodes.

Custer was a brave, capable and highly effective Cavalry commander who suffered from slander at the hands of cultural subversives in the latter half of the last century.

@ToddSauve

20 күн бұрын

Even today people call him stupid and a buffoon. Yet the US army has done on the spot assessments of his battlefield decisions and concluded that his choices were entirely correct _given the information he had at hand on Sunday June 25, 1876!_ The Little Bighorn is such undulating and hilly terrain that it is impossible to truly know what is behind the next hill, ridge and gully until you are there. I am not a Custer fan but all these people painting him as an imbecile are so far out of their depth that it is embarrassing and they really should shut their mouths and read a lot more--and listen even more. IMHO, Custer's worst mistake was in not listening to his Indian scouts when they told him they could see the encampment's horse herd and it spelled doom for them if they attacked with less than 700 men. Custer could not see it, even with the help of his telescope, and decided they were grossly exaggerating. The rest is history ...

Well first of all Custers 7th Cavalry wasn't wiped out at Little Bighorn.. 260 some Cavalrymen were killed at little bighorn but also Benteens command, and Renos troops, along with their supply train contained some 450 men who lived through the battle.. The Sioux won because they fought tactically with firearms that had purchased from trading posts and the Metis' canadian buffalo hide hunters who functioned as middle men to the Indians. best Bruce Peek

An interesting comparison would be Little Big Horn and Isandlwana. Eurpopean/American arrogance vis a vis 'savages', incl., splitting command, last stand of Sioux/Zulus.

He was a dude that had an ego.

. Oh the sacred indigenous if only we could tap that font of all knowledge. Certain all these peoples have cure for any ill communicate with gods aliens etc etc

Surely Custer and Stuart were besties. It's in The Santa Fe Trail with Errol Flynn as Stuart and Ronald Reagan as Custer.

@eshaibraheem4218

Күн бұрын

Weĺĺ, it must be true then.

I was always given the impression Custer was a complete loser and a figure to make fun out of, until I saw The Last Samurai haha. Maybe he is, not sure, but I don't think so - guess I'll find out!

Right off, first sentence - it wasn't only the Lakota. There were also Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and multiple bands of Sioux (Oglala, Hunkpapa, and Brulé, amongst others, I believe). On the other side, there were Pawnee and Arikara in US service as scouts. When one meets an Indian (only politically correct academics riddled with white liberal guilt say "Native American"), the respectful question to ask RE heritage is, "What is your nation?". Many Indians today hold full blooded indigenous ancestry, but have ancestors of multiple nations. They might have a Blackfoot father and Nez Percé mother, with a Cheyenne grandparent or great grandparent, or a French fur trapper somewhere in their distant ancestral past. However, despite a heritage which may be a patchwork quilt of identities, they generally recognize one as their main influence. In other words, they are like everyone else.

'Redskins' wouldn't pass muster, today. It would pass Custer, tho'. Apologies

@ToddSauve

20 күн бұрын

Yes, show yourself out, LOL!

Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Big Horn. What Eli Cash's book presupposes is, maybe he didn't.

Custer got what he deserved. It’s hilarious in school they made Custer to be the heroic good who took a valiant last stand.

@ToddSauve

20 күн бұрын

Are you not perhaps superimposing blind Manifest Destiny over top of Custer? Custer wrote that, all in all, he would choose to be one of the Plains warriors out in the unceded territory and hunting and fighting until the end if he was a member of those tribes. That doesn't exactly fit your narrative, does it?

@verenamaharajah6082

20 күн бұрын

He still did his best to kill them all though, didn’t he?

@ToddSauve

19 күн бұрын

@@verenamaharajah6082 Is it fair to put your anger over the policies of the US federal government on Custer? I am not a fan of Custer, for various reasons, but if you are looking for those truly responsible for the Plains Indian wars, then look at President Grant, his war cabinet, and the highest ranks of the US army like Sheridan and Sherman. They are the ones who dreamed up the entire series of wars yet are never held responsible, while these same people blame Custer. How much blame can rightfully be assigned a mere lieutenant colonel in the US army who had absolutely no say in policy and who was actually in President Grant's doghouse at that very moment? I think you should be able to see the irrationality of this argument by now. I suppose you can take some comfort in the fact that the vast majority of people who hate Custer have never thought this through either.

Son of the Morning Star, crazy name, crazy guy