> > i have to agree that rule britannia were less
> > brutal than most of the other european colonists.
> > jon
> Really? I'm sure Native Americans, original Australians
> (especially in
> Tasmania where they were wiped out), the
> "fuzzywuzzies" who were made
> to build railways in Africa and so on would disagree with
> that.
> Britain has just as shameful a past in slavery and
> extermination as
> the French, Dutch, Belgians, Portuguese... Maybe more.
> Charlie.
you could be right, although i read a history of columbus where he would
torture and executed the peaceful native americans that welcomed him, bearing
gifts, etc. cutting off their hands when they couldn't give him more gold. I
believe the pope divided up the indies between the portuguese and the spanish.
jon
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