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The difference between fall and drop is that falling is a object moved freely and rapidly, to a higher or lower level, while drop is the act of letting or making something fall vertically. They appear the same with a slight difference if you speculate it carefully.
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Hostile Indians, starvation, poor leadership, lack of government, cannibalism, lack of skills among colonists.
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