Could 10 Modern Marines Hold Little Round Top at Gettysburg?

Gettysburg, Little Round Top, 1863: can ten modern Marines hold the Union left in the American Civil War with only what's on their backs? One squad, 210 rifle rounds a man, one M249 with two belts, and sixteen grenades against the Texans and Alabamians climbing the hill on July 2nd. On this ground a rifle that kills at four hundred meters can't see past fifty, so the question is what runs out first. Mike walks the battle of Little Round Top act by act, with a survival tier after each one. You'll see the dead ground that swallows the squad's range advantage, William Oates swinging the 15th Alabama around the south spur, the sharpshooters in Gettysburg's Devil's Den, and a last push up both slopes at once. It's civil war history measured against the real record: the 20th Maine went in with sixty rounds a man before Joshua Chamberlain sent them downhill with bayonets. Was stripping a wounded Marine's magazines the right call, or the only call? Tell us in the comments, and subscribe to NerdHistory for more military history hypotheticals. Hashtags #Gettysburg #AmericanCivilWar #CivilWarHistory #MilitaryHistory #NerdHistory