Students of Colonial history will appreciate this cartoon

[n2doc]

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Ah yes. I remember that incident.

http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html

This is the person after whom Amherst, Mass was named...and thereafter Amherst College.

[tavalon]

3. I thought that was common knowledge

Horrible common knowledge but common knowledge nonetheless.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. I remember seeing a movie about it when I was kid. But of course they depicted the general

who gave the Indians the infected blankets as a "Hessian"..not one of the "good guys".

[tavalon]

2. Yep, Die Quickly has been an American tradition for a long time