Company M and the 7th Cavalry Regiment fought 300 warriors along the Yellowstone River on August 4, 1873 as part of the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)
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Werner von Fritsch, Army Colonel General, born August 4, 1880 in Benrath/Düsseldorf, winner of Iron Cross 1st Class in World War I, commander in chief of the German Army until 1938, dismissed from his post due to accusations of homosexual conduct, killed in action September 22, 1939 outside Warsaw, last words: “Oh, just leave [me] be!”
Von Fritsch, accompanied by several forward observers, had moved forward of German lines outside Warsaw on September 22, 1939. He was struck in the thigh by a sniper’s bullet. When another officer moved forward to administer first aid, von Fritsch ordered his rescuer away. Von Fritsch subsequently bled to death. As to the charge of homosexuality with a male prostitute in Berlin known as “Bavarian Joe,” it was later proven to be a case of mistaken identity, but Hitler did not reinstate von Fritsch, from a protocol sense, to his last duty position. Werner von Fritsch is buried at Berlin’s Invalidenfriedhof. (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)