The Brotherhood of Empirical Failure

In 1876, Custer’s Seventh Calvary was defeated by the Lakota and Cheyenne tribes at the Little Big Horn; three years later, two British columns were virtually annihilated at Isandlwana, South Africa. Ever since, historians on several continents have noted the uncanny and eerie similarities between the two battles. The first book on the subject, The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, 2nd ed. by James O. Gump, a professor of history at the University of San Diego