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  • The Boston Massacre was an attack on colonist civilians by British troops on March 5, 1770, and its legal aftermath, which helped spark the American ...
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  • The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first ...
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  • The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest Massacre, was a mass execution of Polish citizens by the order of Soviet authorities in 1940. ...
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  • The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage ...
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  • The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking," was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in and ...
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  • The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas ...
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  • The Massacre of Glencoe occurred in Glen Coe, Scotland early in the morning on February 13, 1692, during the era of the Glorious Revolution and ...
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  • Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is a National Historic Site in Kiowa County, Colorado near the towns of Eads and Chivington, commemorating ...
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  • The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters) as part of a Prohibition Era ...
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  • The Boston Massacre was an attack on colonist civilians by British troops on March 5, 1770, and its legal aftermath, which helped spark the American ...
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  • The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters) as part of a Prohibition Era ...
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  • Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is a National Historic Site in Kiowa County, Colorado near the towns of Eads and Chivington, commemorating ...
    15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:11, 23 December 2022
  • The Massacre of Glencoe occurred in Glen Coe, Scotland early in the morning on February 13, 1692, during the era of the Glorious Revolution and ...
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  • civilians were murdered. This two-day massacre of was one of the largest ... and then shot. Anatoly Kuznetsov described the massacre: ...
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  • The Jeju Uprising or Jeju Massacre (old spelling, "Cheju") refers to the rebellion and subsequent heavy government suppression on Jeju ...
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  • ==Lidice Pre-Massacre== [[Image:Lidice CZ map.JPG|thumb|250px|Lidice ... ==Lidice Massacre== |left|250px|The village of Lidice was destroyed ...
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  • the Ghost Dance subsequently led to the massacre at Wounded Knee. ... death of Sitting Bull and the later Wounded Knee massacre. ...
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  • he became a victim of the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) in which nearly 300 ... set off a chain reaction ending in the massacre at Wounded Knee. Chief Sitting ...
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  • The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas ...
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  • ===Alexandra Hospital massacre=== On February 14, 1942, seeking reprisal ... hospital grounds who had been responsible for the massacre. ...
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  • death of Sitting Bull and the later Wounded Knee massacre. ... ==Role in Wounded Knee Massacre== Wovoka’s message spread across ...
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  • The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking," was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in and ...
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  • The man was also accused of participating in the Kansas City Massacre ... in the 1975 TV-movie, The Kansas City Massacre. He was portrayed by Martin ...
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  • Cheyenne were victims of the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado ... band of Southern Cheyenne at the Sand Creek Massacre. ;Battle of the ...
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  • ===My Lai massacre=== The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of several hundred unarmed ...
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  • state in the months leading up to the Ludlow Massacre. After the massacre, which she used as an anti-Rockefeller vendetta, she was invited to Standard ...
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  • The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest Massacre, was a mass execution of Polish citizens by the order of Soviet authorities in 1940. ...
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  • soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put ... Interestingly, Hosea specifically denounces the massacre carried out ...
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  • Aubin Codex has a native description of the massacre at the temple in Tenochtitlan in 1520. Also called "Manuscrito de 1576" (“The ...
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  • Fuel and Iron Company, following the "Ludlow Massacre.” The massacre, which occurred after a gun battle between striking miners and Colorado state ...
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  • ===Saturday Night Massacre=== [[Image:ArchibaldCox.jpg|thumb|Special ... subpoena led to the "Saturday Night Massacre" on October 20, 1973 ...
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  • Baal, but immediately presides over the massacre of 450 of the Baal's ... as they show Elijah conducting the massacre of 450 prophets of Baal ...
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  • of the patriots" (meaning that a massacre of the partisans of reform was under preparation). Finally, after drawing two pistols from under ...
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  • others. In 1864, after the Sand Creek Massacre of the Cheyenne in Colorado ... infantry up what Wyoming locals call Massacre Hill while Grummond's ...
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  • were sent to Columbine High School after the massacre there, to New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Virginia ...
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  • previous action by Jehu of Israel, the "massacre at Jezreel," in which Jehu slew Jezebel and scores of the descendants of King Ahab. The passage ...
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  • the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in the Lincoln Park neighborhood ... murders of the St. Valentine's Day massacre that made people view Capone ...
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  • centers of the Russian Empire. The massacre on Bloody Sunday is considered ... , citing his desire to avoid a massacre and his realization that there ...
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  • past the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre and the towns of Wounded ... Americans. The first was the Wounded Knee Massacre, the last major armed conflict ...
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  • This dissension climaxed with a riot which led to a three-day massacre and to the rare imperial intervention to uphold public order. Damasus ...
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  • The French Wars of Religion began with a massacre at Vassy on March ... ===Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre=== [[Image:Massacre saint ...
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  • The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre is often blamed for destabilizing ... Angry mobs began rioting in the aftermath of the massacre, which led ...
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  • the revolutionaries by ordering a massacre of communists, revolutionary ... the revolutionaries by ordering a massacre of communists, revolutionary ...
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  • soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put ... the latter of whom declared Jehu's massacre in Jezreel to have been ...
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  • Hallasan (한라산, 漢拏山), a shield volcano on Jeju Island of South Korea, is the highest mountain in South Korea. Along with Jirisan and ...
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  • which came to be known as the Wyoming Valley Massacre. ... Cherry Valley, later called the Cherry Valley Massacre. ...
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  • Jewish residents were murdered in the 1929 Safed massacre. Jewish immigration to Palestine, meanwhile, now focused on other locations more in keeping ...
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  • ===Massacre=== The crusader army came under the command, both spiritual ... siege of Carcassonne, which followed the massacre at Beziers, that Simon de ...
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  • The wars, which ranged from colonial times to the Wounded Knee massacre ... William Hull, surrendered in fear of massacre should he refuse. ...
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  • Bhatta (c. 700 C.E.) was responsible for the massacre of Buddhists, and the philosopher Madhva was called the "hammer of the Jains" ...
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  • After the 1770 Boston Massacre, Warren was a member of the committee informing the colonial governor that British troops must be recalled, and ...
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  • the island in May 1871 in retaliation for the massacre of sailors aboard the stranded merchant marine schooner USS General Sherman in Pyongyang in ...
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  • Militia. This became known as the Sand Creek Massacre. Cheyenne were killed at the Sand Creek Massacre and Northern Cheyenne participated ...
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  • event that became known as the St. Vrain massacre. This act, was, however ... st-vrain-massacare/ The St. Vrain Massacre] The Closet Skeleton Genealogical ...
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  • The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage ...
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  • ==== "Saturday Night Massacre" ==== instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre" when President Richard ...
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  • violence of Hitler may even result in a general massacre of the Jews by way of his first answer to the declaration of such hostilities. But if the Jewish ...
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  • time of Ridel‘s arrival. Hearing of the massacre, Roze determined to launch ... and military authorities viewed the massacre of westerners and Christians ...
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  • #039;s Last Stand) and the Wounded Knee Massacre, both involved the Sioux. ... ===Wounded Knee Massacre=== Wounded Knee Massacre The Battle at Wounded ...
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  • faim (Hunger and Thirst, 1966), Jeux de massacre (1971), Macbett (1972, a ... * Jeux de massacre (1970) * Macbett (1972) ** [http://www.ionesco.org/macbett ...
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  • thumb|200px|Depiction of the Cherry Hill massacre, in which Mary Jemison& ... husband was a leader in the Cherry Valley massacre during the American Revolutionary ...
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  • during the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which started on August ... during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which started on August ...
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  • 5, 1774, the fourth anniversary of the Boston Massacre, he gave a speech strongly condemning the British. In the same year, he was unanimously elected ...
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  • the Ghost Dance subsequently led to the massacre at Wounded Knee. After that ... death of Sitting Bull and the later Wounded Knee massacre. ...
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  • was done in the wake of the Boston Massacre in March of 1770. It is not known whether Revere was present during the Massacre, though his detailed ...
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  • /article/0,9171,897752-2,00.html Massacre of the Pure.] Retrieved ... * Oldenbourg, Zoe. Massacre at Montsegur: A History of the Albigensian ...
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  • or race) and -cide (Latin - occidere or cideo - to massacre). ... *The conquest and massacre of various Middle Eastern peoples, by the ...
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  • Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) both recalled the ... on the Left (1972), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), and The Hills Have ...
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  • forces was very real at the time). The Massacre at Paris was a short, sketchy ... * The Massacre at Paris (c. 1593) ===Poetry=== * Translation of Lucan ...
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  • ruled by the Rana dynasty after the Kot Massacre in 1846, to be succeeded ... executed in what came to be known as the Kot Massacre. Ultimately, ...
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  • all Jews out of Hebron "to prevent another massacre." ... to prevent both occurrences. The Qibya massacre, in which an Israeli commando ...
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  • ===Wounded Knee massacre=== [[File:Sitting Bull by D F Barry ca 1883 ... set off a chain reaction ending in the massacre at Wounded Knee. Chief Sitting ...
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  • A.M., the signal was given for a general massacre, which was so brutal it ... "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont." Dartmouth. ...
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  • prisoners. The French failed to stop the massacre, and it was debated if they ... Arnold was in the West Indies when the Boston Massacre occurred on ...
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  • fears of another St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The subsidies had been reduced by degrees, as Henry gained more secure control of the nation. ...
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  • up rumored allegations of the My Lai Massacre. Powell wrote: "In ... In April 2002, he visited the site of the alleged Jenin Massacre in ...
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  • the 1860s which included the Bear River Massacre. They fought with the U ... tribes in the wake of the Bear River Massacre, in which the United States ...
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  • of a popular gathering, known as the massacre of the Champ de Mars (July ... had happened as early as the July 1791 massacre of the Champ de Mars. But ...
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  • reluctance to officially address the Nazi massacre of Jews in Kiev in 1941. ... of historical fact regarding the Nazi massacre of the Jewish population ...
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  • 400th anniversary of his birth. After the massacre of men, women and children ... siege of Drogheda in September 1649. The massacre of nearly 3,500 people in ...
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  • American artillery and bombs. The now infamous massacre at Huế, committed by the Communist forces, also marked a tragic era of the city's history ...
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  • To that end, he authorized the massacre of many Catholic missionaries and converts. While his economic reforms had made him enemies at home ...
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  • Utrecht. His mother was slain during the Spanish massacre of Oudewater in 1575. About that year Arminius was sent to study theology at the University ...
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  • violence was touched off by the Marais des Cygnes massacre in 1858, where border ruffians killed five free-stater men. == Constitutional fight == ...
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  • Another attack funded by bin Laden was the Luxor massacre of November 17, 1997, in Egypt, which killed 62 civilians. This action disgusted the Egyptian ...
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  • Ursula's friends were beheaded in a dreadful massacre, and the barbarian leader (also unknown) then shot Ursula dead with an arrow. Ursula and her ...
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  • men, women, and children were slain. The massacre and pillage lasted three ... Jewish population that turned into a massacre. Nearly all the conversos ...
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  • [[Image:1622 massacre jamestown de Bry.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|A 1628 woodcut by Matthaeus Merian published along with Theodore de Bry's ...
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  • following the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, the movement was outlawed ... In 1994, following the massacre in the Ibrahim Mosque by Kach supporter ...
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  • quot; in the German language predates the massacre itself, and it also refers ... Concerned with presenting the massacre as legally sanctioned, Hitler ...
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  • [[Image:Ruebens massacre.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Massacre of the ... Rubens' newly discovered painting Massacre of the Innocents (illustrated ...
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  • Sontag referred to the Serbian invasion and massacre in Bosnia as the "Spanish Civil War of our time," sparking controversy among U.S. leftists ...
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  • pounds, Morgan had his men burn the city and massacre all its inhabitants, an action considered, to this date, the most barbarous atrocity ever perpetrated ...
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  • five pro-slavery farmers in the Pottawatomie Massacre. Brown also helped defend a few dozen free soil supporters from several hundred pro-slavery ...
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  • famous for his firing during the Saturday Night Massacre was a direct descendant of Roger Sherman. ==Legal, political career== Despite the fact ...
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  • The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first ...
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  • came to be known as the "Ben Wright Massacre." 0AE8-0AAF-62A8FCA83E75BE63 Ben Wright Massacre of 1852]. Retrieved May 24, 2013. ...
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  • a bus to an abyss: Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus # 405 massacre *Suicide attack with guns: Kashmiri insurgents on the Indian Parliament in December 2001 ...
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  • her prominence in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre in Trinidad, Colorado in 1914. ==Aboard the Titanic== [[Image:Molly brown rescue award ...
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  • of the badly demoralized Red Berets to massacre civilians. By 1989 torture ... On the heels of the bishop's murder came the July 14 massacre ...
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  • Jehu of Israel, helping him to carry out the massacre of the family of Ahab and the priests of Baal in the city of Samaria (2 Kings 10:15-27). ...
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  • in Warsaw were referred to as a "massacre" of unarmed Russian ... far apart from each other. This started a massacre of an unheard of scale. ...
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  • Brant led the attack known as the Cherry Valley massacre. ... at the battle of the Wyoming Valley massacre, rumor was that he led it ...
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  • killing of hundreds of students in the Tlatelolco massacre. He returned to Mexico in 1969, working as a visiting professor of Spanish American Literature ...
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  • 342 Texan prisoners at the Goliad massacre (March 27, 1836). Santa Anna was soundly defeated a few weeks after the Goliad massacre ...
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  • (2:16), a probable reference either to a Roman massacre of Jews in Jerusalem or to an expulsion of Jews from Rome, both of which occurred in 49 C.E. ...
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  • dead. This has been attributed to a Viking massacre. Three other Viking attacks are recorded within eleven years of this date. The Celtic Church ...
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  • considered responsible for the "Massacre of the Champ de Mars," ... killed in what became known as the "Massacre of the Champ de Mars," ...
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  • Battle of Lushunkou|Port Arthur massacre (China) --> in an event called the Port Arthur Massacre. By December 10, 1894, Kaipeng ...
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