[lastexodus] Re: Rebellion
- From: "William A. Peterson" <WillyPete@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lastexodus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:59:27 -0500
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From: "Johnson, Anna" <AJohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:38 AM
Subject: [lastexodus] Rebellion
>
> The 'Taiping Rebellion', which is exquisitely detailed in the book "God's
> Chinese Son", resulted in more casualties than World War I and World War
II
> combined, and all within a matter of a handful of years.
Thanks!
>Hong, who believed he was Christ's younger brother,
and, in a "Last Exodus" universe, he might well have been...
>was a native southerner
Really? Georgia? Florida? {You're not one of those trying to
tell me that there's someplace in the world outside of the United States,
are you?} :->
>inspired by missionaries and 'Manchu' oppression to lead an uprising which
would result
> in Heaven on Earth. The result, sadly, was nothing of the sort - the sort
of
> horror that lead to unbelievable slaughter.
Which, I think, we can lay more at the hands of General Tso,
than the rebels, though I presume there was a good deal of bloodletting on
both sides...
>I highly recommend the book.
Cool! Anyone else have any 'historical tidbits' that might
enrich "The Last Exodus"?
> Anna J. Johnson
> Mystif & Scrat Inscrutable
> **********
> Illegitimi non carborundum!
Hear! Hear! It might not be Latin, but it's great advice,
nonetheless...
Good Luck,
William A. Peterson
willypete@xxxxxxxxxxxx
"In the end, after having exhausted all other possible
options, you can trust that the Americans will do the right
thing." - Winston Churchill
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