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To: gibsonguy

The ancient empires such as the Assyrian and Babylonian did exactly what Jackson did to the Indians. Their lands were forfeit after conquest and the survivors were exiled to unfamiliar and often hostile lands.


12 posted on 09/04/2017 11:12:31 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...".)
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To: D_Idaho

“The ancient empires such as the Assyrian and Babylonian did exactly what Jackson did to the Indians”

This is true but more often then not losing sides are absorbed and eventually they assimilate. In Jacksons writings this is what he thought. Of course what he actually did was what you described for whatever reasons.
Probably the political realities of the time.


16 posted on 09/04/2017 11:26:08 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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