Outrageous Acts Quotes
The Spaniardes have executed most outragious and more then Turkishe cruelties in all the west Indies
He was one of the strongest English advocates of colonization of the New World. At that time this was as strong an epithet of cruelty as could be made by Europeans. It was an accurate assessment.
The Germans had comitted some terrible war crimes in Belgium at the begiining of WWI. They had torpedoed passanger ships with some Americans getting killed, Public opinion was such that Wilson worried that some atrocity by any small german detachment could pressure his administration to enter WWI to satisf American public opinion.