Native American Battle Tactics

Native Americans proved to be insightful students of the people they were fighting. Take, for example, the strategy employed by various braves at Little Big Horn. Crazy Horse and his boys had noticed in prior battles that the commonly used Springfield .45 rifle has a huge design flaw. Namely, when it was fired too often, the ejector stopped ejecting cartridges and the gun jammed.

So, when the battle began for Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse rode out back and forth along the American lines, letting the troops open fire on him. Then, once their guns were overheated and jammed, Crazy Horse sent his men in to take down the essentially defenseless soldiers.