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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
It was not however?
1) Does "It was not however" mean "but it was not"?
2) Does "fleeing from the continued hostile situation surrounding the massacre" mena "abandoning the battle stations (that were continuing to fight against) around the place where the massacre happened"?
Background info:
Historically, Wounded Knee is generally considered to be the end of the collective multi-century series of conflicts between colonial and U.S. forces and American Indians, known collectively as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Wars. It was not however the last armed conflict between Native Americans and the United States.
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_Mission_Fight was an armed confrontation between Lakota warriors and the United States Army that took place on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation on December 30, 1890, the day following Wounded Knee. The fight occurred on White Clay Creek approximately 15 miles north of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge,_South_Dakota where Lakota fleeing from the continued hostile situation surrounding the massacre at Wounded Knee had set up camp.
2) Does "fleeing from the continued hostile situation surrounding the massacre" mena "abandoning the battle stations (that were continuing to fight against) around the place where the massacre happened"?
Background info:
Historically, Wounded Knee is generally considered to be the end of the collective multi-century series of conflicts between colonial and U.S. forces and American Indians, known collectively as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Wars. It was not however the last armed conflict between Native Americans and the United States.
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_Mission_Fight was an armed confrontation between Lakota warriors and the United States Army that took place on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation on December 30, 1890, the day following Wounded Knee. The fight occurred on White Clay Creek approximately 15 miles north of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge,_South_Dakota where Lakota fleeing from the continued hostile situation surrounding the massacre at Wounded Knee had set up camp.
Top answer
1) Yes. 2) "battle stations" is not the right phrase there. "hostile situation" really means no more than what the words say.
- 1) Yes.
- 2) "battle stations" is not the right phrase there.
- "hostile situation" really means no more than what the words say.
- It is not possible just from this text to know exactly what the situation consisted of, only that it was hostile.
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1) Yes.
2) "battle stations" is not the right phrase there. "hostile situation" really means no more than what the words say. It is not possible just from this text to know exactly what the situation consisted of, only that it was hostile.
2) "battle stations" is not the right phrase there. "hostile situation" really means no more than what the words say. It is not possible just from this text to know exactly what the situation consisted of, only that it was hostile.
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