I might be making this up because I can't find an answer. Was there a leader that after battles he would collect his victims ears and wear them as a belt/sash? It would be around the early-mid 1800's.
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A reference to the death of early Texas explorer, Philip Nolan, perhaps?
On March 21, 1801, a Spanish force of 120 men under the command of Lieutenant M. Msquiz left Nacogdoches in pursuit of Nolan, whom they encountered entrenched and unwilling to surrender just upstream from where the current Nolan River flows into the larger Brazos (now in Hill County, Texas). Several of Nolan's men surrendered immediately to the Spanish and after Nolan was killed, the remainder yielded. Nolan's ears were cut off as evidence for Spain that he was dead.
Well not exactly an explorer. More like a spy. He was working for General James Wilkinson scouting out the land in Texas under the guise of gathering mustang horses.dcbowers said:
A reference to the death of early Texas explorer, Philip Nolan, perhaps?
On March 21, 1801, a Spanish force of 120 men under the command of Lieutenant M. Msquiz left Nacogdoches in pursuit of Nolan, whom they encountered entrenched and unwilling to surrender just upstream from where the current Nolan River flows into the larger Brazos (now in Hill County, Texas). Several of Nolan's men surrendered immediately to the Spanish and after Nolan was killed, the remainder yielded. Nolan's ears were cut off as evidence for Spain that he was dead.