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74 matches to Mountain Meadows Massacre
Boxer Rebellion. 1900. Massacre of ‘foreign devils’ by Chinese led to reprisals and Peking Protocol.
Calley, Wm. Convicted of My Lai Massacre.
Campbell, John. 1635-1716. Glencoe massacre organizer.
Catherine de Medici. 1519-89. Wife of Henry II, mother of 3 French kings, built Tuileries Palace. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Charles IX. 1550-74. King of France 1560-. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Cholula, Massacre. 1519. Cortes razes Mexican town; 3000 dead.
Coligny, Gaspard de. 1519-72. Huguenot leader 1562-. Influence on king caused Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Delacroix, Eugène. 1798-1863. French Romantic painter. Dante and Virgil. Massacre at Chios 1824.
Fetterman Massacre. 1866. Red Cloud-led Sioux kill 80 US Soldiers.
Glencoe Massacre. 1692. Campbells kill 38 MacDonalds for late oath of allegiance to King William.
Goliad Massacre. 1836. 350 Texan prisoners by Mexico in War for Independence.
Guise, Francois, duc de. 1519-63. Massacred Huguenots at Vassy, 1562, starting War of Religion.
Guise, Henri, duc de. 1550-88. Partipated in St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Founded Catholic League 1576. Led revolt against Henry III. Murdered.
Herod. 73-4BC. King of Judaea 37BC-. Massacre of the Innocents.
Heydrich, Reinhard. 1904-42. Deputy head SS. Assassination led to Lidice massacre.
Hudson’s Bay Company. 1670-. England. Explored Canada. Sought NW passage. Trading posts. Fur trade. Monopoly 1821-58. Seven Oaks Massacre.
Huguenots. 1510-18C. Persecuted French Calvinist Protestants. 300,000 expelled 1685. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Wars of Religion. Edict of Nantes. Henry of Navarre. Declaration of Rights of Man, 1789.
Huron. North America Indian tribe massacred by Iroquois 1648-50. Oklahoma.
Indian Mutiny. 1857-9. Indian troops rebel vs British officers. Months of violence, massacres. East India Act. Ended Mogul Empire.
Innocents, Massacre of. 4BC. Herod has all Bethlehem infants murdered.
Janissaries. 1330-1826. Ottoman sultan’s powerful bodyguard. First recruited from Christian children. Massacred by Mahmud II after revolt.
Jonestown Massacre. 1978. 913 followers of US cult leader James Jones commit suicide in Guyana.
Katyn Affair. 1940 massacre of Polish officers by Russian troops discovered 1943. Denied, blamed on Nazis. Ignored by Allies. Soviets admit responsibility, 1992.
Kent State Massacre. 1970. Ohio National Guardsmen kill 4 student anti-Vietnam War demonstrators.
Killiecrankie, Battle. 1689. Jacobites massacre Royalists.