Miles Standish

I have been listening to the Philbrick book on the Mayflower and it is entertaining and detailed. Audible is definately the way to go about audio books. Yesterday I heard about Miles Standish killing Pecksuot. Standish was Napoleonic before Napoleon, he had to trim his saber six inches to keep it from dragging on the ground. The relations between the English and the different Native tribes are very complicated, compelling and often brutal. From Wikipedia a description of Standish killing Pecksuot who had made several vague threats involving a knife he taken off of an Englishman or Frenchman, one of a pair:

Edward Winslow quoted in Good News From New England about Standish:
Also Pecksuot, being a man of great stature than the Captain, told him, though he were a great Captain, yet he was but a little man; and said he, thought I be no sachem, yet I am a man of great strength and courage. These things the Captain observed, yet bare with patience for the present. . . On the next day he began himself with Pecksuot, and snatching his own knife from his neck, though with much struggling, killed him therewith. . . Hobbamock stood by all this as a spectator, and meddled not observing how our men demeaned themselves in this action. All being here ended, smiling, he brake forth into these speeches to the Captain: Yesterday Pecksuot, bragging of his own strength and stature, said, though you were a great captain, yet you were but a little man; but today I see you are big enough to lay him on the ground.