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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123164)	7/3/2005 2:35:39 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793742

I'd be interested in knowing the etymology of the word 'terrorist.' I don't think it existed in 1776. Perhaps there were dynamitards in those days, but no terrorists...

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123164)	7/3/2005 4:31:21 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793742

Some of the fighting during the Revolutionary war was pretty brutal, particularly between loyalists and patriots in some of the colonies. Scalping, burning down houses, although probably not with non-combatants inside. Combatants, yes. The British army made a practice of surrounding contingents of the rebel army in the middle of the night and bayonetting them in their sleep. But I suppose you'd call that a massacre rather than terrorism. If you prefer to limit the definition of terrorist to deliberate attacks on civilians, I guess you'd have to look to Sherman and his march to the sea through Georgia, burning everything in his path. What about "Bleeding Kansas", John Brown, and the Whiskey Rebellion? George Washington describes the tactics of the persons involved in the Whiskey Rebellion: ahp.gatech.edu