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Loser James Roark was emotionally hammered by the "tomahawk right" on March 18, 1780. His wife and
seven children were scalped by Indians. One precious daughter escaped.
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Winner British Captain Henry Bird, "forwarn'd them that the Savages would adopt some of their Children" in the
dreadful summer of 1780 and the Shawnees "rushed in, tore the poor Children from their Mother's breasts."
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Winner Maj. John Butler and his wolf pack of Indians and British rangers massacred Wyoming on the
northern branch of the Susquehanna in the summer of 1778. "In this action were taken 237 Scalps, and only 5 prisoners."
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Winner Alexander McKee was a horrific British agent of "Michief" on the frontieer with high expectations to
"Render this Country a Mere scene of Carnage and Desolation," especially in 1778.
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Winner James Hall and half dozen Virginia militia on November 11, 1777 murdered Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and two
of his sons. Their mutalated bodies were briefly displayed in public near Point Pleasant.
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Winner Benjamin Logan was a white militia commander near Blue Licks, Kentucky. 200 men pursued a small raiding
group of Indians that had captured "a couple of boys" in August 1782. 77 were killed in the ambush around steep cliffs
by a combined British-Indian force of 600.
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Winner Simon Girty was a British ranger. He witnessed the torture of William Crawford. He also led the ambush
and massacre of Kentucky militia near Blue Licks.
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Loser Colonel William Crawford was captured by Delaware warriors and dragged back to Sandusky, Ohio.
He was stipped of clothes, publicly humiliated, beaten, and tethered to a pole. His torture was the stuff
of frontier legends. Hot black powder was fired at him "from his feet as far up as his neck." Poked with burning sticks.
Ears ripped off. Scalped head and bare back "Roasted" under hot coals.
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winner Thomas Jefferson was the second paranoid governor of the state of Virginia.
He imagined frontier settlers "so far discontented with the present government as to combine with
its enemies to destory it."
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Loser John McKinley was a brief prisoner at a Delaware village in Sandusky, Ohio. He was
tomahawked and scalped by Indian boys and women. An "old squaw" cut off
his head and made sport by kicking it over the ground.
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Winner John Knight survived the painful Delaware gauntlet at Sandusky, Ohio. He witnessed the
legendary torture of william Crawford. "The nature of an Indian is fierce and cruel, and that an extirpation of them
would be useful to the world, and honourable to those who can effect it."
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Winner Daniel Brodhead expressed grave doubts about the disposition of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Iroquois,
and other Indians. "It is much easier," he disparaged "for the most civilized Indian to turn savage
than for any Indian to be civilized."
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Winner Col. John May rose to become one of Marietta, Ohio's depressed elites.
"This country is in a dreadful situation," he lamented "having been almost intirely overrun this Summer by the Indians;
and most of the useful men having been killed."
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Winner William Irvine noticed the backwoods of America was "in a strange state." Vengeful Whites "deliberated" before
butchering Christian Indian children "in cold blood" and "in their Wretched Mothers Arms." Whites threatened to
"scalp" commanding officers because "the general and common opinion of the people of this Country is that all Continental
officers are too fond of Indians."
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Winner Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – June 25, 1816) was a land-grabbing frontier magistrate. He judged all Indians to be "Devils" and
their "extermination" was justifiable. "For a keg of whiskey," he projected "you might induce any Indian to murder
his wife, child, or best friend." He authored Modern Chivalry.
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Loser Unknown victim. There were thousands on both sides of the Royal Proclamation Line of 1763.
Violence, fear, uncertainty, and disorder were prevalent "during the time men live" wrote Thomas Hobbes "without a common
power to keep them all in awe."
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