Actually- there is nothing In British History, or Canadian history, that remotely resembles the California Gold rush genocide. It was a descent into madness only paralleled by Leopold's Congo rubber vine madness .
I have to agree with Black Leaf on this one. Go for it, , Alf of Boulton....
Don't move the goal posts. I posted that the British had betrayed the First Peoples. I did not mention anything about Canadians or Americans. So stay within the parameter of my post. You want evidence? Here you go:
Betrayal and Compensation
The conflict between France and Britain culminated in the "French and Indian War" that broke out in 1754–a war that was really an extension of the Seven Years War in Europe. The British were only able to maintain their shaky alliance with the Iroquois–then angered by various maneuvers by white business interests to steal their land–by promising to return to the Iroquois land taken by the French and by making promises against any further European settlement on their lands. After the French defeat, Indians in the Ohio region were stunned to discover in 1763 that the French had ceded all of their territorial claims on the region to Great Britain. To discipline the tribes, British commander-in-chief General Jeffrey Amherst imposed trade restrictions to prevent Indians from obtaining firearms and powder. Under the leadership of an Ottawa Indian named Pontiac, as well as Seneca and Delaware war leaders, a confederation of tribes rose up in rebellion against the British. The movement ended in defeat, in part as a result of Amherst’s biological warfare against the Indians–sending them blankets infested with smallpox. These conflicts left smoldering resentments among Indians, but also an example, if only briefly, of Indian unity that had a strong impact on the Shawnee.
In exchange for Indian acceptance of military and trading forts, the British issued a royal proclamation reserving land beyond the Appalachians for Indian hunting grounds, off limits to new colonial settlers. In practice, this decree was completely ignored, and new settlers continued to pour into the areas west of the Appalachian range, encouraged by private interests who schemed to cheat various tribes out of their land. The defeat of the British in the American Revolution increased westward migration. The 1787 Northwest Ordinance–the new government’s attempts to legally guarantee tribal lands in the Ohio valley–was ignored as much as its British predecessor.
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Bolstered by promises of British support, more than 2,000 warriors gathered in mid-June 1794 near Fort Miami on the
Maumee River in Ohio, confidently awaiting a confrontation with the advancing U.S. Army. Using ruse and strategy, Wayne directed his well-trained troops against the Indians, who were gathered behind a protective tangle of fallen trees. The army’s assault was successful, and the Indians broke in less than two hours and fled. More than by defeat, the Indians’ morale was shattered by failure to receive help from the British, who preferred not to risk hostilities with a neutral nation during a time of war against Revolutionary France.
The fruits of the Battle of Fallen Timbers were claimed at the
Treaty of Fort Greenville (Aug. 3, 1795), when the Miami chief
Little Turtle, representing the confederation, ceded to the United States most of Ohio and parts of
Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. The treaty thus gave a great impetus to westward migration and settlement of those areas. Within the next 25 years additional Indian lands north and west of the treaty line were also ceded to the United States. In addition, the treaty ended British influence in the area, facilitating the evacuation of border forts that had been provided for in the Jay Treaty (1794); thus the danger of any British-Indian alliance against the United States was finally eliminated.
Battle of Fallen Timbers (United States history) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
