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Massacre See also Genocide. Acre after conquering city, Richard I executed 2700 Muslims (1191). [Eur. Hist.: Bishop, 83–84] Turks decimated Armenian population, dispersed survivors (1896). [Eur. Hist.: EB, I: 525] seeking audience with Czar, workers receive bullets instead (1905). [Russ. Hist.: EB, II: 93] skirmish between British troops and Boston crowd (1770). [Am. Hist.: EB, II: 180] Russians massacre English cavalry at Balaklava (1854). [Eur. Hist.: NCE, 212; Br. Lit.: Benét, 186] party of 80 frontiersmen ambushed by Indians (1886). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 942] slain by Santa Ana in wake of Alamo (1836). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 155] bombing of Guernica (1937); memorialized by Picasso’s painting. [Span. Hist.: NCE, 1158; Art Hist.: Osborne, 867] infant boys massacred in Bethlehem under Herod. [O.T.: Matthew 2:16–18] with this, Samson kills 1000 men. [O.T.: Judges 15:15] mass murder of 4250 Polish officers during WWII (c. 1939). [Polish Hist.: NCE, 1457] Union stronghold where Quantrill’s Confederate band killed more than 150 people (1863). [Am. Hist.: EB, VIII: 338]
treated hospitably, king’s men attempt annihilation of MacDonald clan (1692). [Br. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 567] Arab terrorists brutally killed 11 Israeli athletes. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 462] murder of 22 Vietnamese villagers by American troops under Lt. William Calley, Jr. (1968). [Am. Hist.: Facts (1973) 145] using this weapon, Shamgar slew 600 Philistines. [O.T.: Judges 3:31] massacre of French (Angevins) by Sicilian nationals (1282). [Ital. Hist.: NCE, 2511] thousands of French Huguenots murdered for their faith (1572). [Fr. Hist.: EB, VII: 775] murder of seven members of a gang of bootleggers in Chicago (1929). [Am. Hist.: EB, VII: 797] (1808) Murat’s squads executed hundreds of Spanish citizens; memorialized in Goya’s painting. [Sp. Hist. and Sp. Art: Daniel, 220] murder of missionary Marcus Whitman and family by Cayuse Indians (1847). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2972] scene of the slaughter of 200 Sioux Indians (1890). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 306] colonial militia butchered by Tory-Indian force (1776). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 564] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| At the conclusion of each massacre in either country, or as soon thereafter as practicable, or at stated regular periods, as may be provided by treaty, there shall be an exchange of scalps between the two Governments, scalp for scalp, without regard to sex or age; the Government having the greatest number is to be taxed on the excess at the rate of $1000 a scalp, and the other Government credited with the amount. The news of the massacre probably reached Chobham, Woking, and Ottershaw about the same time. From Salamis to Actium, through Lepanto and the Nile to the naval massacre of Navarino, not to mention other armed encounters of lesser interest, all the blood heroically spilt into the Mediterranean has not stained with a single trail of purple the deep azure of its classic waters. |
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