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Show OBJECTS TO TERM 'MASSACRE' Author Insists That Custer's Last Fight Must Properly Be D. scribed as a Battle. Cyrus Townscnd Brady, I.L.D., In the preface of a Tolnme on "Indian Fights and Fighters," makes a marked distinction between the terms "massacre" "mas-sacre" and "battle." He says that every time a body of troops engaged in a fight with Indians and the troops were outnumbered or caught at a disadvantage, dis-advantage, and the battle was con tinned until the troops were slaugh-I slaugh-I tcred, such an affair was popularly called a "massacre." as. for Instance. "The Cutr Maswacre." Mr. F.nuly bellies this to be in unwarranted un-warranted ue of the term. Coxier, the author pdnts out. attacked the Indian In-dian and fought desperately until he and Lis men were all killed. lie calls it a "battle" and not a "massacre." When an Indian war parly raided a settlement or overwhelmed a train, or murdered women and children, that, ho thinks, was a "massacre." The author au-thor says: "I would like to ask if anyone ever heard of the 'Massacre of Thermopylae?' Thermopy-lae?' The Creeks fought there until u'l save one were killed. The results there were exactly the same as those of the battle of the Little P.lg Horn, but I have yet to rear In history that the Perde.ns 'nms'-uered' the Greek In that famous pass." ! i |
