Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 29, 2025
"To regular forces under pay, the grant was ten pounds to volunteers, in actual service, twice that sum; but if men would, of themselves, without pay, make up parties and patrol the forests in search of Indians, as of old the woods were scoured for wild beasts, the chase was invigorated by the promised 'encouragement of fifty pounds per scalp!" The "fruitless cruelties" of the Indian allies of the French in Canada, says the historian, gave birth to these humane and nicely-graduated enactments!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking