Was he really retarded if he got the best Atari 2600 game?

He was a good cavalry commander in his early career but it all went to his head

>>18127573
It's crazy that the US Army of this era could take on and crush huge modern Westernised militaries like with Spain, Mexico and even themselves (Civil War) but they got mogged in battles like this.

>>18127757
Can't chase injuns around with infantry and have set-piece battles.
And this was just one engagement, the US military did fine against the indians, sadly for everyone involved.

>>18127757
They crushed the natives worst of all. They were ethnically cleansed and those that remained were relocated to shithole reservations.

Sometimes you lose battles, especially when heavily outnumbered. Comparing this sort of thing to the Civil War is idiotic. The US never had the remotest chance of losing after Tecumseh was killed and his confederation fell apart, they always held all the power from then on.