[Miami Rebel]

How charmingly 19th Century of you.

THEY we were the savages, not us. Primarily because we were clever enough to label our victims.

[pierrem15]

No. Through the brutality of the Wars of Religion the Europeans slowly evolved a notion of distinguishing combatants from non-combatants and setting limits on the treatment of prisoners. By the early 19th century, the actions of British troops after taking Badajoz with 3 days of rapine and plunder was considered a great blemish on the British Army.

And even as savage as the Europeans of the 17th century still were, inured to public executions, burnings at the stake, etc., when the French and English encountered the Eastern Woodlands Indians, early European settlers were shocked by the savagery the Indians showed one another. The way the Hurons and the Iroquois slow-roasted opponents over a low fire (and the latter many a French Jesuit) formed a particularly strong impression.

[rollo tomasi]

Both sides did awful and violent actions. However, the US Government was to project benevolence yet in North Georgia and South Dakota, as examples,the government projected totalitarian murderous greed that would make Stalin proud because of gold, mammon as Christ would call that. South Dakota is filled with illegal settlements including Rapid City.

[rollo tomasi]

Both sides did awful and violent actions. However, the US Government was to project benevolence yet in North Georgia and South Dakota, as examples,the government projected totalitarian murderous greed that would make Stalin proud because of gold, mammon as Christ would call that. South Dakota is filled with illegal settlements including Rapid City.