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To: rovenstinez

“Maybe they will let some of the places massacres took place of settlers build a monument as well?”

You’re dreaming. They invent false massacres (every attack by the army is condemned) and hide what they’ve done. Bad bad whites, that’s their credo.


5 posted on 05/25/2007 4:39:15 PM PDT by drzz
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To: drzz
Here's another Indian War massacre from the Second Seminole War.

The U.S. Army had 11 companies, about 550 soldiers, stationed in Florida. Fort King had only one company of soldiers, and it was feared that they might be overrun by the Seminoles. There were three companies at Fort Brooke, with another two expected momentarily, so it was decided to send two companies to Fort King. On December 23, 1835 the two companies, totalling 108 men, left Fort Brooke under the command of Maj. Francis L. Dade. Seminoles shadowed the marching soldiers for five days. On December 28 the Seminoles ambushed the soldiers, and wiped out the command. Only three men survived the massacre, and one, Edwin De Courcey, was hunted down and killed by a Seminole the next day. Two survivors, Ransome Clarke and Joseph Sprague, returned to Fort Brooke. Only Clarke, who died of his wounds a few years later, left any account of the battle from the Army's perspective. Joseph Sprague was unharmed and lived quite a while longer, but was not able to give an account of the battle because he had sought immediate refuge in a nearby pond. The Seminoles lost just three men, with five wounded.

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that it was the Seminoles who won this fight.

87 posted on 05/12/2008 5:06:38 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
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