Unjustified Slaughter Quotes
Describing events in the battle of Talishatchee, where Tennessee soldiers under General Andrew Jackson wiped out every one of the adult male Red Stick Creek Indians in the settlement in retaliation for their massacre of the population of Fort Mims:
See {630997} for the description of the terror policy.
To this day there is a large stature of Montecino prominent in the skyline of Santo Domingo.
Richelieu was commenting on the 1609 expulsion of the Moriscos from Aragon.
Roosevelt had little respect for Miles who was an enemy of the President’s. Incredibly enough, Roosevelt wrote this sentence in a letter to the general. However, the President’s aids persuaded him not to send the letter not only because it was so confrontational with Miles but it was a Presidential admission that there had been a “massacre” for which the United States military was responsible. For a parallel situation in World War II England, see Winston Churchill {597711}. Roosevelt remembered the incident and later when Miles stepped out of line, Roosevelt ended the general’s career—see {589012}. This quotation when considered against the {588991} quotation demonstrates the very complex nature of TR’s character and views. He did not like Indians and had disparaged them and commented that dead Indians were good Indians. Yet he had a very strong sense of honor and was greatly offended by the massacre of unarmed Indians and women and children.
This was the first report or expose of “Thuggee” a quasi-religious Indian cult that revolved around robbery and murder. The word “thug” came to English from the Hindi word for the member of the cult.
This statement was dramatically notable because he is one of the few Muslim clerics to come out unequivocally against the 9-11 attack.
