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In the course of this conflict, forced removal of at least 10, 000 Indians to relocation centers in the interior of the country and subsequent burning of some villages took place.
Modern engineering as it is understood today took form during the scientific revolution, though much of the mathematics and science was built on the work of the Greeks, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese, Indians and Muslims.
Although educated Indians " by and large took a vicarious pleasure " in seeing the British rulers humbled, the ruling upper classes sided with the Allies.
Sierra's relatives among the Indians took up arms against the rebels to avenge his death.
Men who migrated to the North American colonies often took their East Indian slaves or servants with them, as East Indians have been documented in colonial records.
Benjamin Franklin, who had negotiated with the Indians during the French and Indian War, protested vehemently against the Paxton massacre that took place at Conestoga, in western Pennsylvania, of December 1763, in which white vigilantes massacred Indian women and children, many of whom had converted to Christianity.
After the Indianapolis Indians moved to Victory Field, a race track took its place and the race track owners stripped the ivy off of the walls.
After the Western introduction of the horse to Native Americans, the Plains Indians also took up the lance, probably independently, as American cavalry of the time were sabre-and pistol-armed, firing forward at full gallop.
In contrast, a large portion of the settlers encroaching on their territories and against whom the Cherokee ( and other Indians ) took most of their actions were Scots-Irish, Irish from Ulster of Scottish descent, a group which also provided the backbone for the forces of the Revolution ( a famous example of a Scots-Irishman doing the reverse is Simon Girty ).
The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.
Many soldiers at the mission who were no longer being paid by the new Mexican government took out their frustrations on the local Chumash Indians.
The Americans took auto racing further to commemorate the dead soldiers who killed American Indians, Spanishes, Filipinos, Chinese and Japanese.
The few remaining natives fled west to Pensacola and beyond or east to the vicinity of St. Augustine ; in 1763, when Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain as part of the Treaty of Paris, the Spanish took the few surviving Florida Indians with them to Cuba and New Spain.
The battles of the Red River War of 1875-1876, an effort by the United States Army to contain the Indians in the Panhandle, took place.
The Battle of Mud Springs and the Battle of Rush Creek between the U. S. army and the Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux, and Arapaho Indians took place in 1865 within what would become Morrill county.
In 1763, Ojibwe Indians took the fort as a part of Pontiac's Rebellion and held it for a year before the British retook it.
They took over the area of Seligman Campsite from the Apache Indians.
In the mid-17th century, John Eliot, a Puritan missionary to the American Indians, established " praying towns " where Native Americans took up Christianity and were expected to renounce their religious ceremonies, traditional dress, and customs.
As local legend goes, one Griffin Tipsword came to this part of Illinois and took up his abode with the Kickapoo Indians.
They were kidnapped by the Indians who then took them with them on their travels across New England.
Originally settled by Chippewa Indians, the township took its name — French for " Great white "— from French traders who arrived before 1800.
The Pueblo Indians took out turquoise in the hills of Cerrillos.
The Piqua High School Indians athletic teams also took its inspiration from its local Native American history.
The county took its name from the Seneca Indians, who originally were native to the territory.

Indians and they
You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.
These concessionaires traded where they wished and generally dealt with the Indians through engages, who might be habitants, voyageurs, or even soldiers.
But many Criollos did not want to lose the class privileges, in any new republics, and the most among the coloured majorities ( Indians, blacks and mixed-bloods ) did not want to lose the backing that they had from the Crown and Catholic Church.
As early American Indians lacked the proper pottery that could be used directly over a fire, they developed a technique which has caused many anthropologists to call them " Stone Boilers ".
Somers asked the local newspapers to come up with a new name, and they chose " Indians ".
On September 23, 1949, Bill Veeck and the Indians buried their 1948 pennant in center field the day after they were mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
In 1648, preacher John Elliott was quoted in Thomas Shepherd's book " Clear Sunshine of the Gospel " with an account of the difficulties the Pilgrims were having in using the Indians to harvest cranberries as they preferred to hunt and fish.
Yet it is a drink very much esteemed among the Indians, where with they feast noble men who pass through their country.
In 1850 several shiploads of Indians, Malays and Chinese were brought out to work the plantations but, instead, they set up shops in Cayenne and other settlements.
After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.
In the 1997 National League Championship Series, Brown, riddled with the flu, proceeded to pitch a complete game in Game Six, defeating the Atlanta Braves and helping the Marlins reach the World Series, which they eventually won over the Cleveland Indians.
: These Topasses have no Forts, but depend on their Alliance with the Natives: And indeed they are already so mixt, that it is hard to distinguish whether they are Portugueze or Indians.
The lands out west yielded little income because they were under attack by Indians and the squatters living there refused to pay him rent.
They dispatched soldiers and what happened next could only be described as a “ bloodbath .” At least nine hundred Indians were killed and it did not matter whether they were women, children or men.
Bernard de Voto, in his 1953 Westward the Course of Empire, observed: " The Indians had an experience they were never to repeat: they were sorry to see these white men leave.
This is what private traders cannot do, for they must gain ; they will consequently retire from the competition, and we shall thus get clear of this pest without giving offence or umbrage to the Indians.
In this way our settlements will gradually circumscribe and approach the Indians, and they will in time either incorporate with us as citizens of the United States, or remove beyond the Mississippi.
The Indians asked the British for military support, which they initially refused.
In the early seventeenth century, when western European explorers made their first forays into the region, they encountered descendants of the Late Woodland Indians: the Chippewa, Menominee, Sauk, Fox, Winnebago, Miami, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.
The island soon became the key-point in the trade of indentured laborers, as thousands of Indians set forth from Calcutta or Karikal ; not only did they modify the social, political and economic physiognomies of the island, but some also went farther, to the West Indies.
As June came to a close, the Brewers made their biggest move for playoff contention as they traded 4 prospects, most notably Matt LaPorta, to the Cleveland Indians for CC Sabathia.
The Indians were, generally, faithful to the trust ; and the party recovered their horses without serious difficulty when they returned.

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