Re: [OT] Invading America

On Thu, 30 May 2002 18:24:23 -0700 (PDT), John Atkinson
<johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:

>The biggest thing that foreigners fail to comprehend
>about Americans is that you mistake natural
>peacableness with cowardice.
>
>Santa Anna made that mistake, ordering no quarter to
>be given at the Alamo and a prisioner massacre at
>Goliad.  All he did was guarantee that the Texans
>would fight well.  Also see US reaction to the Malmedy
>massacre et al.

Foreigners aren't the only one to make that mistake. The massacre at
Fort
Pillow only set the resolve of Black Union troops during the Civil War.
Far
from making them fearful, it meant that pressed into a desperate
situation
they would fight to the last man. This resulted in Blacks fighting
desperately
and honourably at Port Hudson, Petersburg, and other battles.

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