"It is a melancholy reflection that our modes of population have been more destructive to the Indian natives than the conduct of the conquerors of Mexico and Peru. The evidence of this is the utter extirpation of nearly all the Indians in the most populous parts of the Union. A future historian may mark the causes of this destruction of the human race in sable colors. Although the present Government of the United States cannot with propriety be involved in the oppropbrium, yet it seems necessary however, in order to render their attention upon this subject strongly characteristic of their justice, that some powerful attempts should be made to tranquilize the frontiers, particularly those south of the Ohio."
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Academics from the United StatesMilitary leaders from the United StatesCommanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff of the United States ArmyPeople from BostonUnited States Secretaries of War
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Report by then Secretary of War Henry Knox to the president, 1790.
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Henry Knox
Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was an American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nation's first Secretary of War. He was a trusted adviser, and a life-long friend, of George Washington.
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