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Winner Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton of Detroit was known as the "hair buyer" during the Revolution because he
purchased American men, women, and children scalps from Indian raiders, couer du bois, and British rangers. Captured at
Vincennes.
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Winner "the big knife" of sovereignty was a terrifying label commonly used to identify Americans,
especially violent white "Virginians" by fearful Indians east of the Mississippi.
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Loser "big knife" dead. Many white man die on "dark and bloody ground."
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Winner David Zeisberger was a pious Moravian preacher and peace advocate. He said that Delaware Indian chiefs "want
to live in friendship with the white People if they only know that the white People has no bad designs against them.
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Winner George Morgan was a land schemer and frontier agent who reported to the American Commissioners for
Indian Affairs. "The most pacific measures with liberal presents," he advised will be more avidly received by the
savages than anything "our armed forces can produce."
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Winner Declaration of Independence author said that the king "has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,
and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages."
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Loser Declaration of Independence author and Continental Congress delegate grieved that the king has
sent "forth swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out our substance."
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Winner Richard Henderson of North Carolina purchased 200,000 acre of Cherokee land in Kentucky claimed by
Virginia governing elites. Many Common settlers, speculators, squatters, and land schemers were initially beguiled and
falsely encouraged to populate Transylvania only to be marginalized or killed by proxy in the end.
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Winner John Stuart was the British Superintendant of Indian Affairs in the
southern department. He was vilified
and accused of inciting Cherokee attacks on the eve of revolution. "Nothing can be more alarming," he surmised
"than the Idea of an Attack from Indians and Negroes."
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Winner Col. John May killed and saw the depressed fruits of his land-grabbing labor.
"With a jealous Eye we view one another, every man looking upon his neighbour as his Enemy."
He continued, "There is no such thing as Friendship existing in this Part of the World."
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Samuel Wharton observed rugged American spirit and violent individualism from a safe distance. "Inhabitants westward
of the Allegany Mountains have by Beat of Drum declared Themselves an Independant State." He wrote, "there are 5000
Men, good marksmen who have associated themselves to defend their Independance."
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Loser Cornstalk was a Shawnee chief, diplomat, and statesman. Virginia militia or "long knives" as they were known
by Native Americans mauled, murdered, and mangled him and his two sons at Point Pleasant.
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Winner Patrick Henry was one of Virginia's governing elites.
Effectively exploiting militia and poor white squatters, he became a 10,000 acre beneficiary during
one of the great land grabs. Legendary "Give me liberty or give me death" sermon in revolutionary Richmond
was authored by William Wirt in 1816.
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Wild Thomas Cresap was called "Big Spoon" by native american savages because he slaughtered and boiled in a
cauldron enough livestock to feed an entire band of hungry Seneca braves that passed by while on the warpath. Also called
the "Maryland Monster" by liberal Quaker elites in Philadelphia.
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Winner Lord Jeffrey Amherst, commander of all British forces in North America during Pontiac's Rebellion.
He approved British distribution of smallpox-infected blankets to Great Lakes Indians and expressed his
willingness to adopt any "other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race."
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Loser Chief Pontiac went to war because
the Royal Proclamation Line of 1763 was not enforced; white squatters, Virginians, and "long knives"
trespassed onto redskin lands. Three years after meeting Sir William Johnson, British Superintendant
of Indian Affairs he was murdered.
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