Re: The joy of Democracy

On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, Peter Flass wrote:

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On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:
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On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 18:17:46 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
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Empire of the Summer Moon on the Comanche Canâ??t find an actual book,on
the Iroquois, but thereâ??s a lot of stuff outbtgere

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https://bloodontheohiotalesoffrontierterror.blogspot.com/2016/12/iroquois-
torture-and-decapitation-of.html
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Supposedly Zimmermann's books are collections of first person accounts.
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https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
article=1174&context=dissertations_mu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_William_Henry
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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.
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Fascinating. Very interesting, thank you for the links.
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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.

Sounds like they were able strategists and well ahead of their times!