Barbaric Acts Quotes
By the beginning of the 16th century, the Christian Islamophobia and prejudice had spread to each country of Europe. As this quotation illustrates, it even was institutionalized to language.
There is disagreement amongst historians as to whether or not the atrocities attributed to the retreating British troops were actually true. There are two other possibilities. First, this report was made only a week after the battle itself and less than that since the alleged atrocities would take place as the British retreated. There were certainly all kinds of rumors with information passed from person to person with no modern means of documentation. The Provisional Congress may have sincerely thought that all the events occurred but they may have been the result of inadvertent exaggeration. Then there is the possibility that in order to fire up the Americans to join the war, some or all of the atrocity reports were deliberately fabricated. It would only take two or three delegates to agree on such a strategy and they could “confirm” each other’s accounts of the happenings. Of course it might all be true. However, as the British retreated to Boston where they had reinforcements, they did not have a lot of time for malicious atrocities. All along the route, Minutemen, local farmers and townspeople continued the attack against the British. By the time the British soldiers reached Boston, 73 British solders were dead and 174 more were wounded. In war truth does not have the respect that it usually does. See {626632}.
There were a few American Indian Tribes which practiced cannibalism.
Adolphus W. Greely was an Arctic explorer whose party suffered enormous physical hardship in their search to find land north of Greenland. It was rumored that in order to survive, the party engaged in cannibalism of their already dead comrades. Greely was promoted to general to the dismay of some:
In 1910 a consortium of American and European banks was formed to loan the Chinese government money for development. A preliminary agreement was made, but the Chinese backed away, responding to the growing domestic unrest at foreigners controlling too much of China's economy. The consortium appealed to the Western governments' foreign offices to pressure the Chinese; the American ambassador was instructed to demand that the Chinese conclude the loan negotiation. He described what he was instructed to do as:. The loan was concluded and led to protests and violence in China.
