The energy emitted from the fireball as thermal radiation. The total amount of thermal energy received per unit area at a specified distance from a nuclear explosion is generally expressed in terms of calories per square centimeter.
Colonel John M. Chivington attacked an unsuspecting village of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians camped on Sand Creek. An eyewitness testified: ...I think I saw altogether some seventy dead bodies lying there; the greater portion women and children.and Creek was a village of approximately 800 Cheyenne Indians in southeast Colorado. Black Kettle, the local chief, had approached a United States Army fort seeking protection for his people.
It was never really determined why the Myall Creek massacre occurred, but it was believed the slaughter was payback for the killing of several colonists in the area.There is considerable doubt about this as most of those massacred were women and children, and at least one harmless elderly man.he Myall Creek massacre was one of Australia's more shameful events in history. On 10 June 1838, a group of armed stockmen rounded up 40 - 50 Aboriginal women, children and e â¦ lderly men at Myall Creek Station, near Bingara in gold-bearing country of northern New South Wales. 28 Aborigines were murdered.