Re: The joy of Democracy

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

 
 
On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 18:17:46 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
 
 

Empire of the Summer Moon on the Comanche Can’t find an actual book,on
the Iroquois, but there’s a lot of stuff outbtgere

 
https://bloodontheohiotalesoffrontierterror.blogspot.com/2016/12/iroquois-
torture-and-decapitation-of.html
 
Supposedly Zimmermann's books are collections of first person accounts.
 
https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
article=1174&context=dissertations_mu
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_William_Henry
 
I grew up in that area and the massacre at Fort William Henry was part of
the local lore. James Fenimore Cooper got a lot of miles out of it.
 

 
Fascinating. Very interesting, thank you for the links.
 
 

What was interesting about the Comanches, and probably others, is that it
wasn’t just “let’s torture these people because we hate them”, but rather a
deliberate policy of terror to discourage anyone from attacking them or
trespassing onto their territory.

--
Pete