title: Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths
author: Tom Angotti
description: The author lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches urban affairs and planning at Hunter College/City University of New York. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Peru during the 1960s and has opposed US-led wars in Vietnam, Central America and the Middle East. He has published three books and many articles but this is his first work of fiction.
zlib_text: A Dance With Death
  An Irish Soldier of Fortune at the Little Bighorn
  by
  Lance J. Dorrel
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  A Dance With Death is a work of fiction based on historical events. Names,
  characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s
  imagination or are used fictitiously.
  Copyright © 2019 by Lance J. Dorrel
  Paperback Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-578-50558-9
  First Edition 2019
  www.lancejdorrel.com
  Cover design and interior layout: Matthew Wayne Selznick
  Cover painting: Neal Von Flue
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  “A man who defends his country or attacks another is no more than a soldier.
  But he, who adopts some other country as his own and makes offer of his
  sword and his blood, is more than a soldier. He is a hero.”
  ~ Emile Barrault
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  Montana Territory
  25 June 1876
  “Where is the brave one?”
  “He lies over the ridge, Sitting Bull,” the warrior said and pointed east.
  The Sioux war chief and