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wasn't expecting his men to charge with him? It would be horribly ironic if the moment he sees Ramsey has ordered his cavalry to ride Jon believes that he won the battle at the expense of his own life, not knowing what his men have done. Melisandre did tell him that R'hllor might have brought him back only for him to die here, and maybe he took that to mean that getting rid of the Bolton-Karstark-Umber alliance is the reason he was resurrected since even if he and Rickon are dead, Sansa can still claim Winterfell and the North after the battle, and he knows Bran and Arya are somewhere out there as well and hopefully will be able to come together and unite the North and face the Whitewalkers.

Maybe I'm way off and Jon understood his men would follow his lead, but after Rickon gets hit, Jon never once looks back or even signals his own men, and soldiers aren't supposed to do just whatever they feel like, they follow commands. He could have thought that since he has already been lured out well within bow range he can't safely retreat back to his own lines, so he might as well charge and face death fighting rather than getting shot in the back like Rickon just did, believing Davos and Tormund will stick to the plan and wait for Ramsey to commit his forces first. He stands and draws his sword after his horse is killed but never sees what is happening behind him, and he seems surprised as fuck when his own men overtake his position first and hit the Bolton's before they can run him down. Is he confused because they were able to catch up to him so quickly, or that they were even there at all? What do you all think?

As a side note, Davos is the one who actually gives the command to charge, even though it seems he is in command of the archers rather than the cavalry, and only after that does Tormund follow with the infantry (Surprising since wildlings are supposed to be the less disciplined ones). Its also Davos that has the archers join in the melee in the middle of the battlefield rather than keeping them back which sets up the last part of Ramsey's trap. I'm not trying to say its all Davos' fault what a shitshow the battle became since Jon haring off after Rickon upset pretty much everything including the chain of command since it seems Jon was supposed to lead the cavalry, but Jon himself never gave a single command in the battle. The closest he came to giving a command is the only time he speaks during the whole battle, and all he gets out is "get word-" before the soldier ends up eating an arrow. 

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