Nelson A. Miles Quotes
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
Miles, Nelson A. "The Indian Problem." The North American Review, vol. 128, no. 268, 1879, p. 304.
Chamberlain’s policy was to appease Hitler and Germany to avoid war. Although he did not see Czechoslavkia as a critical British national interest and claimed he had secured peace {585941} , the reality was that he gave Germany room to start its aggression which would engulf all of Europe and much of the world. The British became the only bulwark against Hitler until the Russians stopped the Germans and America entered the war.
The Cherokee tribe of Georgia had their government abolished by state law, their meeting prohibited, their land taken and they were urged to migrate to land west of the Mississippi. The federal government promised:. See Lewis Cass for a similar, unequivocal unkept promise.
Despite the fact that there were no formal political polls at the time, public opinion was very influential in curtailing what might be a tendency to use of the American military. Starting with the Cold War later, Presidents tended to use American military force regardless of public opinion or would exaggerate or lie (Vietnam and Iraq wars for example) to temporally gain some public support.
Nelson Appleton Miles was an American military general who served in the American Civil War, the American Indian Wars, and the Spanish–American War. From 1895 to 1903, he served as the last Commanding General of the United States Army before the office was abolished.
