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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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  • [[Image:Custer Massacre At Big Horn, Montana June 25 1876.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An 1899 lithograph entitled Custer Massacre at Big Horn, Montana ...
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  • acting out of revenge for the Hebron massacre of 29 Muslims by Baruch Goldstein that had taken place days earlier on February 25, 1994. Baz was ...
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  • Frédéric Bluche, Septembre 1792: logiques d'un massacre (Paris ... * Bluche, Frédéric. Septembre 1792: logiques d'un massacre ...
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  • ==== Mountain Meadows massacre ==== This came to be known as the Mountain Meadows massacre. ...
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  • Khartoum was the site of a massacre of an Anglo-Egyptian garrison ... (1833–1885). The siege resulted in the massacre of the Anglo-Egyptian garrison ...
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  • the Sons of Liberty, and was present at the Boston Massacre. He volunteered as a member of the Boston Grenadier Corps in 1772, and served under General ...
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  • many other Mau Mau implicated in the Lari massacre were subsequently brought ... for the retaliation to the Lari massacre. Immediately after the discovery ...
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  • frontier came in 1782 with the Gnadenhutten massacre, when Pennsylvania militiamen—unable to track down enemy warriors—executed nearly 100 Christian ...
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  • The first massacre began in the quartier Latin around 2:30 p.m. on ... via an open door in a side stair. The massacre was more uncontrolled in ...
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  • burning his pass following the Sharpeville massacre. In the ensuing state of emergency he was arrested, found guilty, fined, given a suspended jail sentence ...
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  • As a child, the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre that took place in Punjab in 1919 deeply affected him. [http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/itihas/sbsingh ...
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  • wreaked upon it by the Berbers. The massacre of all the Berber chiefs of the Levathes, ordered by Duke Sergius at Leptis Magna in 543, provoked ...
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  • directly or indirectly involved in the Bleiburg massacre. Djilas was sent to Moscow to meet Stalin again in 1948 to try and bridge the gap between ...
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  • Indonesian rule was marked by violence, such as the Dili massacre, in which about 250 youngsters were killed at the Santa Cruz Cemetery in on ...
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  • 30,000 Haitians in the infamous Parsley massacre in 1937, which continues ... uproar that followed the Haitian massacre later that year forced Trujillo ...
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  • Elijah then incited the onlookers to massacre all 450 of the false god ... his temple, Jehu and 80 other soldiers massacre the faithful and burn his ...
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  • The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square Massacre (referred to in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident, to avoid ...
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  • *Skirrow, Fraser. Massacre on the Marne The Life and Death of the 2/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War. Barnsley, South Yorkshire ...
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  • reached a crescendo in the Bloody Sunday massacre, in which Russian workers saw their pleas for justice rejected as protestors were shot by the ...
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  • and was caught up in the subsequent Champ de Mars massacre by troops under Lafayette. This put him in the revolutionary mindset, and the Le Père Duchesne ...
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  • the site of the town meeting held after the Boston Massacre. As a child prodigy, clergyman and other literati of the day provided her with both encouragement ...
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  • would come to be known as the Nanjing Massacre. Nanjing became the seat ... , Lake Xuanwu, Jiming Temple, the Nanjing Massacre Memorial, Nanjing Confucius ...
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  • and reaffirmed in the aftermath of the My Lai Massacre. However, a U.S. soldier who disobeys an order after deeming it unlawful will almost certainly ...
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  • ===Massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl=== During Cortes’s absence ... killed. The event came to be known as The Massacre in the Main Temple.Serge ...
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  • Jeremiah is interpreted as a prediction of the Massacre of the Innocents by Herod the Great in his attempt to kill the young Jesus. ...
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  • ===Malmedy massacre=== [[Image:Malmedy Massacre.jpg|thumb|250px|right ... Peiper were tried in the Malmedy massacre trial following the war. ...
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  • Theodosius I with excommunication for a massacre of innocent civilians in ... Ambrose also threatened Theodosius with excommunication for the massacre ...
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  • Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana. New York, NY: ... Harwood, and Frank Johnston. Guyana Massacre The Eyewitness Account. ...
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  • for the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572, in which thousands ... On March 1, 1562, however, in an incident known as the Massacre at ...
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  • had worsened since the Sand Creek massacre. Jordan, 185–89. ... as an army expedition committed a massacre against the Blackfeet. ...
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  • by the Mexican authorities, including a notable massacre in 1868 where 150 Yaqui were burned to death inside a church by the army. ...
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  • #039;s forces eventually triumphed, committing a massacre with the imperial troops killing 20,000 inhabitants of the city. After the devastating struggle ...
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  • * Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) ===Administration and Cabinet=== {| cellpadding="1" cellspacing="4" style="margin:3px; ...
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  • harmony and even, as in the Wounded Knee massacre, led to greater bloodshed ... War battles took place, the Sand Creek Massacre in southeast Colorado. The ...
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  • Association, led to the Boston Massacre (a term coined by Adams) two years later. After the incident Adams chaired a town meeting which formed ...
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  • intensified with the May 1980 Gwangju massacre, in which government troops sent to quell an insurrection killed about 200 and perhaps many more ...
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  • an appalling catalogue of outrage and massacre.] Retrieved May 5, 2008. The destruction of the Armenian culture occurred during the government ...
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  • and some of the deaths during the Novye Aldi massacre. As of 2008, ECtHR has been flooded by a complaints from Chechnya, what the Human Rights Watch ...
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  • have done the same. When the My Lai Massacre occurred in Vietnam in 1968 ... was later used to explain the 1968 My Lai massacre (including authority training ...
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  • ===Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party=== [[Image:Boston tea party ... Attucks) were killed in the Boston Massacre. The same day parliament ...
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  • a few days before August 10 and escaped the massacre. Jerome Bodin ... The victims of the massacre also included some of the male courtiers ...
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  • 9, 1127, and many days of looting, rapes, and massacre followed. Huizong, his son, Emperor Qinzong, as well as the entire imperial court and harem were ...
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  • Battle of Mount Carmel, or the Waco Massacre. In the years since these ... Carol Moore, author of the 1984 "The Massacre Of The Branch Davidians—A ...
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  • Japanese war crimes in China, such as the Nanking Massacre of 1937. However Germany also recognized that Japan was more capable of fighting the Soviet ...
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  • #039;s band in the August 21, 1863, Lawrence Massacre. quot; Anderson, who led the Centralia Massacre. Jesse joined at about the ...
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  • Sticks captured the fort by surprise, and a massacre ensued, as prisoners—including women and children—were killed. Nearly 250 died, and panic spread ...
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  • In a series of events from 1948–1954, known as the Jeju Massacre or the April 3 Uprising, tens of thousands were killed. Responsibility for ...
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  • was based in the Congo, would attack and massacre Portuguese settlers and ... The UPA which was based in Zaire entered Angola and proceeded to massacre ...
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  • after which they carried out a massacre. The nearby city of Sippar, wishing to avoid a similar fate, surrendered without a fight. Meanwhile ...
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  • reached its peak following the Sabra and Shatila Massacre in September 1982, when tens of thousands gathered to protest in Tel Aviv in what was one of ...
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  • however, and the impact of this large-scale massacre left its mark on Levinas, both personally and philosophically. Levinas is best known for ...
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  • Mossadeq dismissed Zahedi in mid-1951 for "ordering the massacre of rioters who were protesting" the visit by Averell W. Harriman.Kinzer ...
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  • destroyed the village, and involved the massacre of women and children. After the burning of the village, Carson was nearly killed by a Klamath ...
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  • receives the homage of the viziers and the beys, massacre of 2,000 prisoners, the rain falls in torrents." Reportedly among those 2,000 were several ...
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  • of Boston eventually led to the Boston Massacre of 1770. That same year, Gage was promoted to lieutenant general. Late that year he wrote "America ...
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  • against the CCP and ordered the Kuomintang to massacre Communists. The Communists fled from the cities into rural areas, where they organized forces ...
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  • his eyes. The two responded differently to this massacre: Kintpuash gained a deep hostility, while Toby-Winema gained a resolve to find a path that would ...
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  • used at the university. This fact and the massacre at Jagannath Hall and nearby ... Yahya Khan. According to Robert Payne in Massacre [1973], on February 22, ...
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  • from Poland. The discovery of the Katyn massacre soured Polish-Soviet relations ... and by the beginning of the Wola Massacre, the mass execution of approximately ...
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  • The French suffered heavily, mainly because of the massacre of the prisoners. The constable, three dukes, five counts, and 90 barons were among ...
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  • Shimon's patriotism, developed through the horrors of the massacre of countless Jewish during the Bar Kochaba revolt, led him to express ...
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  • Constantine Kanaris at Chios, after the massacre of the island's population ... the more infamous atrocities include the Massacre of Chios, the Destruction ...
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  • Taylor-Taylor, and Brian Jonestown Massacre, led by Anton Newcombe. ... and has toured with the Brian Jonestown Massacre. The groups of the Silverlake ...
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  • Guyana, site of the Peoples Temple massacre in 1984]] A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship, especially with ...
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  • rumours circulated about the complete massacre of all Europeans and native ... massacred by the rebels. Although the massacre might have occurred without ...
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  • view, having defended it in his essay, War and Massacre. ====Pacifism==== Pacifism is the belief that war of any kind is morally unjust. Pacifists ...
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  • The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket massacre) on Tuesday May 4, 1886, in Chicago, began as a rally in support ...
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  • to 300,000 people perished in the Nanking Massacre, after the fall of Nanjing ... attack on the USS Panay and the Nanking Massacre, swung public opinion in ...
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  • assembly, this time condemning the massacre of his supporters at Babra Sharif. "I had to go to prison many a time in the days of the Britishers ...
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  • and the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester. |right|250px|The Corn Laws (1815-1846)were import tariffs designed to support domestic British corn ...
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  • extended military campaign that culminated in the massacre or expulsion of most of the islands' inhabitants in 1621. Thereafter, the Banda Islands ...
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  • Vikings out, and believing it immoral to massacre them, Alfred converted them ... others. Unlike Charlemagne he did not massacre his prisoners nor extend ...
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  • the gathering of people led to the massacre at Jalianwala Bagh in Amritsar ... and non-cooperation in response to the massacre at Amritsar. At the same ...
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  • stories. In 1927, Chiang Kai Shek ordered the massacre of Chinese Communists in Shanghai and other cities. Some of Lu Xun’s students at Sun Yat Sen ...
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  • quot; on behalf of Aleppine Christians after the massacre of Aleppo of 1850. Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq, Leg Over Leg, volume 4, translated by Humphrey T ...
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  • of the clergy, including the imprisonment and massacre of priests throughout France. Napoleon Bonaparte reestablished the Church's rights ...
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  • the Jews, nonetheless resulted in the massacre of many Jews by crusading ... in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre on August 24, 1572, in which ...
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  • usual manner and which also commemorate the massacre of the 36th (Ulster) Division on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. ...
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  • の朝鮮人虐殺 (The Japanese Massacre of Koreans in Karafuto) ... 朝鮮人虐殺事件 (Testimony: The Massacre of Karafuto/Sakhalin Koreans ...
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  • from the collaboration were Lucretia and The Massacre of the Innocents. Outside Italy, reproductive prints by Raimondi and others were the main way ...
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  • led Confederate soldiers in an alleged massacre of unarmed black Union troops ... the rules of war in regard to the alleged massacre at Fort Pillow, and was ...
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  • attacked the University, leading to a bloody massacre on October 6, 1976. The official death toll stood at 46, but the actual figure may have been in ...
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  • In the first, the Israelites massacre the adult citizens of Jabesh-Gilead—who refused to participate in the war—and force their daughters ...
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  • and children camped nearby. The site of this massacre is today called Weenen, (Afrikaans for "to weep"). The remaining Voortrekkers ...
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  • this episode, which became known as the Ezeiza massacre. Horatio Verbitzsky, [http://www.elortiba.org/ezeiza.html Ezeiza.] Full text online (Spanish ...
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  • Snake River, such as the one that occurred at Massacre Rocks (memorialized in Idaho's Massacre Rocks State Park). Following the discovery ...
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  • * Oldenbourg, Zoe. Massacre at Montsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade. Marboro Books, 1988. ISBN 978-0880294775. * Tugwell, Simon. Saint ...
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  • joined in to persecute the Jews, and a massacre began. Many Jews were beaten ... renewed outbreak of violence, including a massacre at York. ...
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  • will leave the Champ de Mars to massacre us all; one resource is left; to take arms!'" Mignet, 21-54. The Swiss and German regiments ...
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  • become known as The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Robinson won the undisputed world middleweight title with a thirteenth round technical knockout ...
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  • legacy includes the infamous Sand Creek Massacre, in which as many as 400 ... Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site and Sand Creek Massacre ...
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  • In Zanzibar, Livingstone saw Arab slave traders massacre between 300 to 400 Africans. Devastated, he returned to Ujiji. Livingstone completely ...
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  • disputed incident, known as the 'Amboyna massacre', where ten English and ten Japanese traders were arrested, tried and beheaded for conspiracy ...
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  • counts were lower). The events of the massacre, known as Bloody Sunday ... appeals for the first time, before a massacre defeated the strikes. But ...
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  • England was killed during these years by war, massacre, and starvation. ==William's reign== William spent much time (11 years, since 1072 ...
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  • on the Champs de Mars led to a massacre: the National Guard opened ... Determining who was responsible for this massacre became another point of ...
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  • Delacroix repainted the background of his 1824 Massacre de Scio after seeing the Constables at Arrowsmith's Gallery, which he said had done ...
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  • The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great Calamity or the Armenian Massacre—refers to the forced mass evacuation ...
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  • October 2-8, 1937, an event known as the Parsley Massacre occurred, in which the Dominican army slaughtered as many as 20,000 largely unarmed men, women ...
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