tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495217839069635401.post3422149132634716131..comments2024-03-21T06:45:10.616-07:00Comments on MUHAMMAD ALI BEN MARCUS: STARVED BY THE BRITISH, SULTAN ABDULMEJID I HELPED THE IRISH. BRITAIN'S WHITE SLAVES IN AMERICA.BAFShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746972009579125295noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495217839069635401.post-4006550186671615722017-06-10T03:04:42.851-07:002017-06-10T03:04:42.851-07:00NOI Research Group
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George Washington'...<br />NOI Research Group<br />18 hrs ·<br />George Washington's War on Native America<br />Chapter 1<br />“The Vile Hands of the Savages”<br />Countdown to Total War, 1775–1778<br />Although every little action by Native Americans against the settlers during the Revolution has been carefully preserved—cherished, even—in western records, the daily atrocities committed against Natives continue to pass unnoticed. Glossed over in the western record is that the primary vocation of “frontier” settlers was crime. As Ernest Cruikshank observed in 1893, the settlements were little more than the hideouts for “runaways, escaped convicts, and all the off-scourings of colonial rascaldom,” who regularly resorted to murder, fraud, rape, arson, and theft against the Natives.<br />Misdeeds skyrocketed…. Immediately before his sudden (and suspicious) death in July 1774, Sir William [Johnson] referred to “no less than eighteen recent instances” of murders committed “with impunity” by the settlers, in which women and children were hacked to death, mutilated, and scalped. …. As Governor George Clinton of New York spun the matter, “we are not to have peace on our frontier until the straggling Indians and Tories who infest it are exterminated or driven back and their settlements are destroyed.” ….<br />Indeed, getting drunk and killing was sport to most settlers, who—according to William Henry Harrison writing in 1801–1802— “consider[ed] the murdering of Indians in the highest degree meritorious.” The Moravian missionary, John Heckewelder, documented with both alarm and contempt that hinterland settlers were little more than “rabble, (a class of people generally met with on the frontiers) who maintained that to kill an Indian was the same as killing a bear or a buffalo.”<br />Source: Barbara Alice Mann, George Washington's War on Native America (2008), p. 5BAFShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10746972009579125295noreply@blogger.com