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Less it happened to us, and more we were still calling ourselves British when we started doing it to the people that weren't.
(oh sorry, I'm native (Iroquois) and I realize now that that 'us' in my first comment was not at all clear about that)
George Washington burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the revolution...
Source?
Not of Washington's conflict with Native Americans, that he burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the Revolutionary War.
https://www.oneidaindiannation.com/oneidas-and-the-birth-of-the-u-s/
That doesn't say anything about the Oneidas being attacked by the Revolutionaries during the Revolutionary War.