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  • and children camped nearby. The site of this massacre is today called Weenen (Dutch for "to weep"). The remaining Voortrekkers elected ...
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  • troops. Nader reacted by ordering his soldiers to massacre the population and plunder the city. During the course of one day (March 22) 20,000 to 30 ...
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  • after the Second World War. In 1945, the Sétif massacre was carried on by the French army. The Algerian War started in 1954. Algeria was particularly ...
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  • was captured. Shah Abbas ordered a general massacre in Beradost and Mukriyan (Mahabad) (Reported by Eskandar Beg Monshi, Safavid Historian, 1557 ...
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  • becomes. It was no riot; it was an absolute massacre." Morris, 273-74. In March 1867, with Reconstruction barely started, Sheridan was appointed ...
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  • Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual ...
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  • , which commemorates a shipwreck and an Ottoman massacre ... In September 1898 the Candia massacre in Candia, modern Heraklion ...
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  • After the massacre of surrendered Teutonic soldiers in the Battle of Krücken in 1249, the Knights refused to negotiate with the Prussians. The ...
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  • approach to ethics. If a lord mistakenly ordered a massacre of civilians, should the samurai observe loyalty and massacre innocent people as his lord ...
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  • Despite the massacre, Wali Khan continued to support talks with Bhutto over a new constitution. Shortly afterwards, he received appointment as ...
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  • **Massacre of the Innocents (2:16–18) Baptism and early ministry *John the Baptist (3:1–12, 11:2-19, 14:1–12) *Baptism of Jesus (3:13–17) ...
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  • and some officials stating they would provoke a massacre if they tried to rescue them from the mob.ABC News Online, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20041 ...
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  • and were tried, as, for example, at the Biscari Massacre trials. The unconditional surrender of the Axis powers was unusual and led directly to the formation ...
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  • date the news of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots reached Geneva. * The "Escalade" (literally, "scaling the ...
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  • Battle of the Little Bighorn, survivor of the massacre]] During the period of the Indian Wars, the Crow supported the United States military by ...
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  • as they are now trying to stifle it in Kansas by massacre, rapine, and murder. Has it come to this, that we must speak with bated breath in the ...
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  • the loss of the British mission and the subsequent Massacre of Elphinstone's army of approximately 16,000 people, which included civilians and camp ...
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  • brought smallpox disease. In 1870, the Marias Massacre occurred. American troops killed 200 Piegan women, children, and elderly despite the fact that ...
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  • a cease fire, which prevented a mutual massacre, Governor Marquis Bernard ... clergy, including the imprisonment and massacre of priests throughout France ...
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  • Movement Ustasha committed a massacre in the hamlet of Šurmanci against 559 Serb civilians, which led Mostar bishop Alojzije Mišić to write ...
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