A History of the Indian Wars
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Excerpt from A History of the Indian Wars: With the First Settlers of the United States to the Commencement of the Late War; Together With an Appendix, Not Before Added to This History, Containing Interesting Accounts of the Battles Fought by Gen. Andrew Jackson; With Two Plates Origin of the name, "Indian." The first interview between the Europeans and the Indians. The first hostilities. Spaniards licentious. Savages resist oppression. Battle. Effects. Indians taxed. Their plan to destroy the Spaniards. Cruelties in Mexico and Peru. Improvements of the natives. The name of Indian was given the original natives of America on account of the general expectation entertained by the first discoverers of the new world, that San Salvador, one of the Bahama islands, at which they first arrived, was connected with others in succession, affording a passage to India, with which country the Europeans had been long acquainted. It was not the idea of discovering a new continent so much as the hope of finding a passage to the riches of the East-In-dies, much nearer and less hazardous than by doubling the cape of Good Hope, which induced those adventurers, allured by the prospects of gain more than actuated by the spirit of enterprise, to explore the untraversed regions of the west. When they had reached a country of a similar latitude, appearance, temperature and soil, supposing they had gained the object so long sought and of such vast commercial importance, they called the country, "the West Indies," and the inhabitants, "Indians." The subsequent detection of the error of that opinion has led to no change of the name, in which posterity felt as little concern as they did interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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