On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:39:39 +0100, "nick"
<pizzalovingcriminals@no-spam> wrote:
>
>"Chris Fleitman" <chrisfleitman@no-spam> wrote in message
>
>> >>Engles paid indios bounty for french scalps, later for other indio
>scalps
>> >
>> > as
>> >
>> >>well - just not as much....
>> >
>> >
>> > "Once the real shooting started in 1775 the Americans went back to their
>bad
>> > old ways. At the North Bridge near Lexington the British army retreated
>but
>> > left behind a wounded soldier. The Brit general Gage was shocked by what
>> > happened next .
>> > Illustration: General Gage, talking head
>> >
>> > Gage: An American youth ran across the bridge and attacked the wounded
>> > soldier with an axe. The poor man was scalped, his head was mangled and
>his
>> > ears cut off while he was still alive. "
>>
>> Although I don't discount our own atrocities towards the natives, a lot
>> of those Indian stories are just that - Indian stories.
>
>From the days of the Raj?
>
Ah yes, Rudyard Kipling - now there's a guy who knew Indians.
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