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Part One: The Accidental Genocide of the Andaman Islands

Behind the Bastards

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The Andamani's

The andamani people by contrast made it clear that they wanted not one fucking thing to do with the British empire. The standard response by these people was to flee if there were too many british people or to try and murder them in self-defense Uh repeated ambushes of royal and company troops eventually sparked a war and a great battle where in men with spears charged a modern British warship and its modern British guns Jesus this did not end well for the andamans people in fairness to them If you're at their level of technological sophistication and you see a steamboat with cannons on it You probably think that's a monster. Yeah, we just have to all charges. It's

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