This may be the only photograph of Half Yellow Face, pipe carrier for Custer’s six Crow scouts. Sharon Small, curator at the battlefield museum, said the man wearing that cavalry coat may have been the leader of the scouts. He was killed two years after the Little Bighorn battle. Others in the photograph are not identified. - Photo courtesy of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. - Photographer not known - Ca. 1876 - (Photoshoped copy from original 1)
The Spartan hoplite. A hoplite was a heavy armed warrior. A Spartan soldier generally carried a dory (spear), xiphos (Spartan sword), hoplon (shield), a Corinthian helmet, greaves (shinguards), and a metal or lamellar cuirass. The Spartan weapons were a well honed part of the ancient world’s premier war machine. Sparta’s elite warriors trained from a young age and unlike their contemporaries on the battle field, being a warrior was the only career they would ever know.
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