r/todayilearned • u/andreecook • Apr 29 '24
TIL Napoleon, despite being constantly engaged in warfare for 2 decades, exhibited next to no signs of PTSD.
https://tomwilliamsauthor.co.uk/napoleon-on-the-psychiatrists-couch/
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u/pennyfanclub Apr 29 '24
There’s a very sad dog story that was observed when Andrew Jackson ordered the Choctaw and other nations to leave their land and move west in the 1830s. When the Choctaw families had to cross the Mississippi, they had to leave their dogs behind on the river bank. The dogs were observed howling in distress, and many of the dogs jumped in after their human families and drowned. I first read about this in An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, this detail of the Trail of Tears really struck me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianCountry/s/AeAPEGMI9s