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Article: Broken alliances.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
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- Military History
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Your article "Fallen Timbers, Broken Alliance," by Thomas Fleming [Aug/Sept 2009], is a typical treatment given native Americans. A single paragraph of Fleming's writing is a signal example:
"The result of Britain's perfidy was a series of brutal frontier massacres in which Indian war parties slaughtered an estimated 1,500 American men, women and children. Settlers in Kentucky screamed for vengeance and attacked even those tribes trying to remain at peace. Washington sent envoys to negotiate the amicable cession of some of the Indians' lands, but the Miamis, Shawnees and other warlike tribes evaded or violated the agreements."
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