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some resident in the region have lost their lives
Germany was the aggressor nation. The event described was the <u>siege of Leningrad</u>, part of Germany's World War II aggression against the Soviet Union. The siege lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, a total of 872 days. More than 1,000,000 Soviet civilians died during the siege. (German forces had finally weakened by then.)
This is called judicial review.
The American colonists were eager to keep the Native American nations out of the mix when it came to the war with the British. The Native Americans could have looked at this as an opportunity to cause trouble for the white colonists and take advantage of the situation. Or the colonists could have looked at the Native American nations as potential allies and made promises to them if they assisted in the war effort. But the colonists appealed to native nations with a message of friendship -- not asking them to join in war against Britain, but also that they not act against the colonists' cause.
The quoted speech, by the way, was addressed to these Native American nations: <span>Mohawks, Oneidas, Tusscaroras, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senekas.</span>
Usually demand refers to someone tell someone else what to do, or how to do it. For example "Give me the remote." could be demanding.
