DEUX VULT ! <| sep |> He was literally listed as one of time 100 most influential people in the 20 th century . That is far from forgotten . <| sep |> Now that , that ' s cool . <| sep |> If you want to be left alone you may want to stop asking questions in a public forum . <| sep |> Nah man that ' s Kuzco <| sep |> Except contemporary accounts talked how how much less brutal native warfare was , and how the Europeans brought about exceptional violence that few of the tribes have ever experienced . Indian battles were farre less bloudy and devouring than the cruell warres of Europe and seldome twenty slain in a pitcht field . Roger Williams , 1643 The Indians are not fond of waging war with each other , unless prompted by some of the traders when left to themselves , they consider the greatest exactness and foreight , all the attending circumstances of war . the cherookee never waged war , but in revenge of blood . but otherwise they treat the vanquished with greatest clemency , and adopted them in the room of their relations , who had either died a natural death , or had before been sufficiently revenged , though killed by the enemy . raiding parties were usually satisfied with two or three scalps and a prisoner . James Adair , 1775 New England ' s first Indian war , the Pequot War of 163637 , provides a case study of the intensified warfare Europeans brought to America . Allied with the Narragansetts , traditional enemies of the Pequots , the colonists attacked at dawn . Surrounding the Pequot village , whose inhabitants were mostly women , children , and old men , the British set it on fire and shot those who tried to escape the flames . William Bradford described the scene ' It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire and the streams of blood quenching the same , and horrible was the stink and scent thereof but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice , and they gave praise thereof to God , who had wrought so wonderfully for them . ' The slaughter shocked the Narragansetts , who had wanted merely to subjugate the Pequots , not exterminate them . The Narragansetts reproached the English for their style of warfare , crying , ' It is naught , it is naught , because it is too furious , and slays too many men . ' In turn , Capt . John Underhill scoffed , saying that the Narragansett style of fighting was ' more for pastime , than to conquer and subdue enemies . ' Underhill ' s analysis of the role of warfare in Narragansett society was correct , and might accurately be applied to other tribes as well . Through the centuries , whites frequently accused their Native allies of not fighting hard enough . Lies My Teacher Told Me , Pg . 118