You are so right, bobad, but have you read about some of the things that those woodland Indians did to their prisoners? Grotesque and horrible tortures almost beyond modern imagination were the order of the day.

Brutality was common on both sides in those wars. It was a very different time, and people's expectations were different from now.

Teribus - I merely said I like history. I did not promise to deliver long synopses of it for you. You have the encyclopedia for that already. I am under no obligation to prove anything here, just having an enjoyable evening chatting with my...peers. (at Bobert's instigation)