Spaniards Quotes
1000 Spanish prisoners of war were over a 4 day period beheaded. This infamous order has been a black mark on his general democratic and humane public life. Some apologists for his war crimes point out that the Spaniards were making an all-out assault on his revolutionary troops who were very badly outnumbered. It took many revolutionary solders to guard the prisoners and if Bolivar lost the upcoming battle, it would have been the end of his revolution and Spain might still be in control of much of South America. With the additional soldiers freed up from guard duty, Bolivar barely survived the battle and the Revolution was not crushed.
The Spaniardes have executed most outragious and more then Turkishe cruelties in all the west Indies
He was one of the strongest English advocates of colonization of the New World. At that time this was as strong an epithet of cruelty as could be made by Europeans. It was an accurate assessment.
There is a Jewish version of this saying the inly difference being the ethnicity of the three people.
This quotation gives a very good example of “street wisdom” which is believed by large proportions of the Arab societies but which has no iota of truth. In America we have Urban legends—just as absurd—but believed by many street people anyway.
What is extremely ironic is that Heriot and the English thought tobacco was very healthy for the user. Between this error and the addictive properties of tobacco, more people have been killed by tobacco than any other substance on earth. Heriot also discovered the potato, and was the first man to introduce it to England. Prior to that, this staple of the European diet was unknown in Europe.
Compare to the language of Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson and his colleagues were familiar with this document.
That is exactly what happened. The Spanish raped and interbred with the native women in the Americas and it was their offspring who ended up dominating South and Central American societies.
