Foreign Invaders And Occupiers: This Time, We Are The Indians

…And – the Iroquois Confederation were not fellow colonialists; they were not part of a society and community riven by violent, ideological faction, as is America, circa 2012. The Iroquois Confederation were foreign belligerents which Washington needed to knock out of the war to focus operational strength against the British main force.

This distinction matters…
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I am not so sure.

I am confident that the Iroquois Confederacy did not consider themselves ‘foreign belligerents’, especially vis a vis the British Royalists and the British/newly-American Rebels.

The Iroquois understood that they were in an existential war, and fought accordingly.

So did their foes.

The last group of educated, moral, restrained gentlemen to fight on this continent against a vicious, no-holds-barred, by-any-means-necessary superior force surrendered in Virginia, North Carolina, and the Deep South in April and May of 1865.

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