My virtual presence, the Elf, thanks you. It is a bit early in the day here, but what the heck I've been good.

I just finished Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857 by Andrew Ward. I love detailed historical accounts of relatively unknown history like this. It was well written and obviously a lot of research went into it in the form of collecting historical documentation.

Looking back at it is a reminder of just how brutal war was at that time, and of the prevailing attitudes of those of European descent towards other races (after all it it would be almost a decade later before slavery was ended in the US). From today's perspective though it is impossible not to feel more sympathy for the Indian mutineers than for the British. After all the British were even more savage and killed more in response to the mutiny than did the mutineers. That and looking back now one can ask what right did the British have to be there anyway? Not to mention the British racism and their attempts to shove Christianity down the throats of a people that already had at least three established and at least equally valid religions.