cbrandweinfryar
Joined: 10 Feb 2010
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 Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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HI happy hump day!
So I wanted to talk about the beginning of the reading, about the Seven Year war being a direct cause of the Stamp Act. History classes in middle school never really told me anything about the Seven Year war having anything to do at all with the Stamp Act. All I was taught was the British wanted more money from the colonists and passed the Stamp Act. I had never thought about the NA’s having a part in the American Revolution.
Also, I thought it was interesting the way that the British thought that the NA’s knew about the “gentlemanly protocals” of letting the other wounded army free to go back home and “not engage in any hostilities for some agreed upon period of time,” pg. 219.
It was cool to see George Washington pop up in the reading. I thought the way he reacted to the Iroquois slaughtering the wounded French soldiers , by standing “passively by until he came to, as it were, and surrounded the remaining French prisoners and bundled them off to safety.” pg. 219.
Unfortunately I also thought that this reading was really boring and hard to focus on, so I agree with Cooper on that one.
My question:: Why do you think the British assumed that the Iroquois knew about this unsaid rule about letting the wounded go? |
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