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To: Pharmboy
Historians say the attack was a turning point in English warfare with native tribes. It nearly wiped out the powerful Pequots and showed other tribes that the colonists wouldn't hesitate to use methods that some consider genocide.

That's a revisionist "historian" way of putting it.

Or perhaps this was simply a battle fought in a time when men were men and sought to destroy their enemies, lest they come back seeking vengeance.

3 posted on 07/13/2010 11:24:56 AM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: Zeppelin
Or perhaps this was simply a battle fought in a time when men were men and sought to destroy their enemies, lest they come back seeking vengeance.

That's EXACTLY right.

8 posted on 07/13/2010 11:35:45 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Zeppelin
That's a revisionist "historian" way of putting it.

I'll say...just sort of forgetting thst the Pequot war was started by the combined tribes, via surprise attacks, with the stated aim of killing ALL the whites in America. But, hey ! What's a little revisionist history to the kids !

27 posted on 07/13/2010 4:46:05 PM PDT by Red Boots
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