Hellish Fiends, and Brutish Men

Stories from the Margins of History

vengeance

8th Sep 2024

‘To be Master of The Devil’: Richard Faulkner

The Isle of Ely Summer Assizes, held at Wisbech on Friday, July 10, 1807, only had one prisoner to try, but he was ‘so shockingly depraved and hardened’ that his story bears retelling. Richard Faulkner was 15 when, on February 15 1807, in an act of revenge, he killed George Burnham at Whittlesea (now spelt… Continue reading

history, True Crime

19th Century, Cambridgeshire, Crime, Crime and Punishment, history, Justice, Murder, Public Execution, Revenge, Richard Faulkner, True Crime, vengeance, Wisbech
26th Apr 2024

Inkpaduta, Henry Lott and the road to Spirit Lake

A bloody massacre. Illustration for True Stories of the American Indians by Edward S Ellis, nd. Credit: Look and Learn On Wednesday, July 1st, 1857, dawn had barely broken when a detachment of Company D, 10th Infantry soldiers from Fort Ridgely reached the Yellow Medicine River, five miles from the agency that bore the same name.The… Continue reading

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19th Century, Abigail Gardner, American West, Captivity, Charles E. Flandrau, Henry Lott, history, Inkpaduta, Iowa, Manifest Destiny, Massacre, Minnesota, Murder, Native American, Roaring Cloud, Settlers, Sioux, Spirit Lake, vengeance, Wahpekute