ABSTRACT
In September of 1876, a band of eight men rode into Northfield, Minnesota, and proceeded to rob the First National Bank. From the very beginning, Greek attitudes to war are ambiguous. They knew the horrors of war all too well: the losers faced the looting and destruction of their entire world, and while a man might die in battle, a harder lot was imposed on his wife and children taken as slaves. When Southerners tried to explain the reasons for the war, they often fell back on the parallels with the first war for American independence. They are fighting for independence and are animated by passion and hatred against invaders." When a Russian Cossack colonel took offense at the contempt displayed by the people of Athens, Alabama, he turned over the town to be sacked by his soldiers who burned, pillaged, and raped to their heart's content.
