18. General Philip Sheridan Set Out to Destroy Native American Life
He was sent in by the US government as part of a military mission to push out the Native Americans. He burned entire villages, killed their horses, and even decimated the buffalo population because of how essential it was to the native way of life. Though there were an estimated 30 million buffalo in the American Plains at the beginning of the nineteenth century, by the end of the century, the Smithsonian Institute struggled to find 25.
