[geeks] 4th Amendment Gone

[Mike Meredith]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:18:28 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:18:35AM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:21:23 -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > > The Britain I remember was perfectly willing to commit genocide
> 
> The scourging of the glens after Culloden in 1725 would be closer,
> when the English army went through as much of Scotland as it could
> reasonably get to, killing everything that moved -- men, women,
> children, sheep...

1 .. It appears to be 1746

2 .. A "punative expedition" would have been considered a bit heavy-
     handed but quite normal at the time. Whilst we would consider
     it extremely barbaric, it would not have qualified as attempted
     genocide (and it's unlikely that the Scottish allies of the king
     would have stood still for anything too extreme).

3 .. Have you a source for this 'scrourging of the glens' ? I did a
     quick google and found nothing, although there are plenty of
     wordy descriptions of the battle and the aftermath.