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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 16:55:25 -0700
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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