Source: The Southern Frontier (ID86)
Author: Crane, Verner (ID35)
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1680-01-01 - 1704-12-31
Spanish refusal to arm Indians became a fatal weakness
In the main, Spanish Indian policy was benevolent and pacific. Though converted Indians were sometimes employed against unfriendly tribes or against the English, the Spanish were loath to place firearms in the hands of their allies. Both in Guale, and, later, in Apalache, this proved a fatal weakness in view of the aggressive, disintegrating, Indian policy of the English.
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