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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 294619" data-attributes="member: 1645">What did Champlain's Indian allies do after that quick victory?  I'm glad you asked!Exultant, the allies closed on the Iroquois camp.  They took the scalps of the fallen -- both living and dead -- and took prisoners on whom they commenced those foul tortures which turned the stomach of their mighty ally.But Champlain's horror at the spectacle of Indians drinking the blood or eating the hearts of their victims would have been magnified up to the limit of even his considerable endurance had he suspected that his victory in this first pitched battle between French and Indian on American soil would produce in the hearts of the vanquished Iroquois a horrible ache for revenge.Scalping still-living victims, drinking blood, and eating raw hearts fresh out of the corpse!  Who needs the Book of Vile Darkness when we've got history books?(By the way, I remember being told that scalping was introduced much later to the Indians by American cavalry.  Was that revisionist history?)</blockquote>