1:54:01
Tell the Crows they're women.
1:54:04
But if the hostiles come in
behind us,...
1:54:07
...and if they're waiting for us below,
we'll never get out of there.
1:54:12
Hostiles behind us?
1:54:14
I see no hostiles behind us.
Do you see any?
1:54:17
- No, sir, not at the moment.
- Then...
1:54:19
...stop trying to cause a reversal
of a Custer decision.
1:54:24
But, sir, wouldn't it be best to send
a squad down Medicine Tail Coulee?
1:54:29
- No, it wouldn't.
- May I ask, sir, why it wouldn't?
1:54:35
Because it would cost us
the vital element of surprise.
1:54:39
Surprise?
They know we're here.
1:54:42
But they don't know that I intend
to attack them without mercy.
1:54:46
- That's no surprise.
- Of course it is.
1:54:49
Nothing is more surprising
than the attack without mercy.
1:54:54
General...
1:54:56
General, I must protest
this impetuous decision.
1:55:06
A Custer decision, impetuous?
1:55:10
Grant called me impetuous, too!
1:55:13
That drunkard, sitting there in the
White House, calling me impetuous!
1:55:19
General,
I implore you to reconsider.
1:55:23
Think of the men
whose lives depend upon you.
1:55:37
What should I do, mule skinner?
1:55:40
Sir, that man doesn't know anything.
1:55:43
What do you say, mule skinner?
1:55:46
Should I go down there, or withdraw?
1:55:52
I had him.
1:55:55
But this time what I held in my hand
wasn't a knife, but the truth.