But the came back in 1812 !
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Gunner wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:51:51 -0500, "David R. Birch"
wrote:

Gunner wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:54:36 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

So it was the Spanish given smallpox infected blankets to the
Indians
and paying bounties on scalps?
By the time anybody started giving "smallpox infected blankets" to the
Indians the indigenous population had already been decimated.

Hardly so.

Gunner
Probably so. The original meaning of "decimated" was "one in ten".
Between the Spaniards' genocide and European diseases, a 10% decline
between 1492 and the late 1800 isn't unlikely.

David

The British were gone before 1800.

Gunner

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