Directly alongside the trough were the open-air stockades where the Ithumba orphans had already gathered for the night, staring over at their wild counterparts, which, between sips, stared back.
The U.S. government sent in 7,000 troops, who forced the Cherokees into stockades at bayonet point. They were not allowed time to gather their belongings, and as they left, whites looted their homes.
And for thousands of years of human history in every society on Earth, they used physical punishments for certain crimes -- whipping, amputation, all sorts of innovative techniques, stockades ...
Many were taken away wearing only the clothes on their backs, carrying whatever they could grab. The army rounded up 16,000 Cherokees and imprisoned them in stockades, where some waited months to ...
Many became involved in the Civil War. Musicians, nurses, spies, and vivandières all had their parts to play. Before the war ended, many soldiers also became prisoners of war. Drums and shrill fifes ...
to round up somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people and put them in stadiums and put them in stockades. Risky because there was still a civil war going on inside Cuba at this point.