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Evidence showed that the Peruvian Amazon Company had committed virtual genocide in attempting to pacify and enslave the native population: it castrated and beheaded Indians, poured gasoline on them and lit them afire, crucified them upside down, beat them, mutilated them, starved them, drowned them, and fed them to dogs. The company’s henchmen also

In the US Civil War, while both armies used grenades, they were ad hoc and ineffective. In the North, Ketchum grenades, which were patented by William Ketchum in 1861, were shaped like big darts, or iron mangoes sporting four fins, with cylindrical plungers at the nose designed to jab into the tamped gunpowder within.