OT: The Hair Buyer

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Hey Ann,

 

> OK Chris - the benevolent dictator - I'll sneak in quickly if I may!

>

> I wasn't going to say anything but am spurred on by Vicki, JenB and Kathleen

> (hope I didn't miss anyone out!) and just wanted to correct a couple of things

> and stand up for my country!

> Butch wrote :

>

> - Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before

> they died.

>

> I would just like to point you to the following website

> http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/patriots.htm

 

I am not in a position to agree or disagree with that site .. but is it

not a Scottish sponsored site?

 

> You will see that this site quotes the message that Butch sent (at the bottom

of

> the page) but does state at the beginning of the page that much of the message

> including the killing and torturing of the patriots by the British is in fact

> fiction. OK - I wasn't there! but I understand that this is a reliable site.

> There is a lot that our countries have done in the past that we can rightly be

> ashamed of. But I will defend my country when I think there are stories being

> passed around that inflame feeling against us.

 

True it is that 230-240 years ago norms were a bit different than they

are today .. but also true that there was a British feller in Vincennes,

Indiana named Colonel Henry Hamilton who was known as the " Hair Buyer "

because he purchased the scalps of American Colonists. And guess what?

This started BEFORE the Revolutionary War.

 

Go half way down to " George Rogers Clark and The Battle of Vincennes "

 

http://www.americanrevolution.com/RevolutionaryWarBattles2.htm

 

For the Americans or others who might be interested .. George Rogers

Clark was one of the greatest American heroes .. he and that band of

Kentucky and Ohio volunteers that captured Vincennes (and other British

outposts of the time) were supermen in every regard. I've read a half

dozen books on his exploits .. but this particular battle took up an

entire volume .. and it was magnificent. The entire Clark family were

American heroes. :-)

 

> I hope all of you across that BIG pond (and those of you there in your

thoughts)

> had a wonderful weekend.

 

Thank you ma'am .. and you. :-)

 

> Ann - Scotland

 

Y'all keep smiling. Butch