• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    The French & Indian War was a good one. Fun fact: George Washington started it as a young British officer. He was assigned to partner with a contingent of Indians to take back a remote fort that the French had occupied.

    After a fierce battle, the British/Indian side prevailed, and entered the fort. They spotted the French commander, sitting on the ground, slumped against a wall, gravely wounded. They approached him, Washington preparing to speak to him, when the Indian leader, walked right up to the French commander, split his skull with a tomahawk, and washed his hands with commander’s brains, while a shocked Washington tried to control his nausea.

    And that was the beginning of the French & Indian War.