“A good Indian is a dead Indian” – this cannibalic aphorism of General Sheridan became the slogan of the American army, “freed” the Wild West from the indigenous inhabitants. Merciless genocide and violation of all peace treaties, mass killings and scalping women and children – there is no crime that American “civilizers” would not commit. Not wanting to dutifully go to slaughter, Siu, Klictor, Shayen and other Native American tribes responded with a merciless partisan war – the Earth burned under the aliens under their feet all a century. The “primitive savages” have repeatedly beat the regular army, about the defeat of the general of General Caster at Little-Bighorn, Yankees are still recalled with a shudder, and there were also “Fetterman’s massacre”, and the Battle of Rosebad, and many other episodes …
In this encyclopedia you will find exhaustive information about all Indian wars, about the heroic resistance of indigenous Americans and the bloody conquest of the Wild West.
Author
Stukalin Yuri Viktorovich
Editor
Ivanov A.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
Indian wars. Encyclopedia of the Wild West
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