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Peterloo massacre
Peterloo massacre public disturbance in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, Aug. 16, 1819, also called the Manchester massacre. A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children were peaceably gathered under the leadership of Henry Hunt to petition Parliament for the repeal of the corn laws and... Read more
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre 1770, pre-Revolutionary incident growing out of the resentment against the British troops sent to Boston to maintain order and to enforce the Townshend Acts . The troops, constantly tormented by irresponsible gangs, finally (Mar. 5, 1770) fired into a rioting crowd and killed five ... Read more
massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day
massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day murder of French Protestants, or Huguenots , that began in Paris on Aug. 24, 1572. It was preceded, on Aug. 22, by an attempt, ordered by Catherine de' Medici , on the life of the Huguenot leader Admiral Coligny . The failure of the attempt led to formulation ... Read more
Nob
Nob in the Bible, religious center just N of Jerusalem. Saul had its inhabitants massacred. ... Read more
Fort Mims
Fort Mims temporary stockade near the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. It was the scene of a massacre (Aug. 30, 1813); William Weatherford led a Native American force in the killing of c.500 whites. ... Read more
Abiathar
Abiathar , in the Bible, priest, son of Ahimelech, the only one of his family who escaped massacre by Doeg. He fled to David, to whom he remained loyal. Later he sided with Adonijah against Solomon, who took away his priesthood. ... Read more
Glencoe
Glencoe , valley of the Coe River, Highland, W Scotland. It was the scene of the massacre of the Macdonald clan (Feb., 1692) by the Campbells, under the direction of John Campbell, 1st earl of Breadalbane, and John Dalrymple, 1st earl of Stair. ... Read more
Katyn
Katyn , village, W central European Russia, 12 mi (19 km) W of Smolensk. During World War II, when it was part of the USSR, it was occupied by the Germans in Aug., 1941. In 1943 the German government announced that the mass grave of some 4,250 Polish officers had been found in a forest near Katyn an... Read more
Michael Cresap
Michael Cresap , 1742-75, American frontiersman and soldier, b. Allegany co., Md. A Native American fighter, he was accused by Thomas Jefferson and others of massacring the family of the friendly Native American chief Logan and thus starting (1774) Lord Dunmore's War. But this is denied by most mode... Read more
Samuel Bamford
Samuel Bamford 1788-1872, English weaver, poet, and social reformer. Always sympathetic toward the working class, he was jailed in 1819 for his part in the Peterloo massacre. His dialect verses were popular among the Lancashire workers. Besides his poetry, Bamford is noted for Passages in the Life... Read more

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My Lai Massacre
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History My Lai Massacre (1968).In South Vietnam on 16 March...least 175 and may have exceeded 400. The massacre at My Lai was successfully concealed...division, who had heard stories of a massacre, brought the incident to the attention...
Boston Massacre
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Boston Massacre (1770).The Boston Massacre, a pivotal event of the Revolutionary Era, grew out of Great...involved, the consequences proved significant. The “massacre” embarrassed the British ministry, heightened...
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY MASSACRE ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY MASSACRE. Early on the morning of 24 August 1572 (St. Bartholomew...Known collectively as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, these events constitute the most infamous episode...
Lena Goldfields Massacre
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History LENA GOLDFIELDS MASSACRE The Lena Goldfields Massacre of April 4, 1912, shook Russian society and rekindled...permanently stamped as perpetrator of the Lena Goldfields Massacre. See also: october revolution; revolution of 1905; workers...
Boston Massacre Soldiers
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law BOSTON MASSACRE SOLDIERS The Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770, was an event that exemplified the growing...later. The acts were revoked later in 1770, after the Boston Massacre; one tax remained, however, and that was a minimal tax on...
massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day murder of...formulation of the plan for a general massacre. The opportunity was furnished by the...reach of the soldiery and the mob. The massacre continued even after a royal order to...
Massacre at Paris, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Massacre at Paris, The, a play by Marlowe written c. 1592. The play deals with the massacre of Protestants in Paris on St Bartholomew...character is the Machiavellian duke of Guise. The massacre is depicted in a series of short episodes...
Katyń massacre
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Katyń massacre. During the Nazi–Soviet...apportion blame for the Katyń massacre, despite Soviet attempts to portray...Forest: the Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre (London, 1971).
Katyn Forest Massacre
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History KATYN FOREST MASSACRE Katyn Forest, a wooded area near the village of Gneizdovo...opening of World War II, is often referred to as the Katyn Massacre or the Katyn Forest Massacre. The incident was not spoken of for sixty years. Even such...
Peterloo massacre
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Peterloo massacre public disturbance in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, Aug. 16, 1819, also called the Manchester massacre. A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children were peaceably gathered under the leadership of Henry...

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Massacre
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary 433. Massacre (See also .) Acre after conquering...Bishop, 83 – 84] Armenian Massacre Turks decimated Armenian population...Russ . Hist.: EB , II: 93] Boston Massacre skirmish between British troops and Boston...
Ludlow Massacre
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History LUDLOW MASSACRE LUDLOW MASSACRE. One of the bloodiest labor conflicts that shook the early twentieth-century American West, the Ludlow Massacre marked the end of Colorado's "thirty years' war." While relations...
Boston Massacre
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History BOSTON MASSACRE BOSTON MASSACRE. As discontent over Britain's taxation policies mounted in the...instantly; two died later. Patriot leaders promptly decried the "massacre" and aroused mass meetings in protest. Lieutenant Governor Thomas...
massacre
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable massacre Massacre of the Innocents the killing by order of Herod the Great, after the...sacrificed’ at the end of a session for want of time. See also Massacre of St Bartholomew , Massacre of Glencoe , Peterloo massacre .
Pottawatomie Massacre
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History POTTAWATOMIE MASSACRE POTTAWATOMIE MASSACRE, the murder by free-state men of five proslavery settlers...primary political issue in the spring of 1856, just before the massacre, was enforcement of the so-called bogus laws. In various...
Sand Creek Massacre
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History SAND CREEK MASSACRE SAND CREEK MASSACRE, an attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a regiment...celebrated in Denver, a great many Americans met the Sand Creek Massacre with horror. Congress launched an investigation of the tragedy...
Spirit Lake Massacre
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE. On 8 March 1857, a small band of Wahpekute Dakota warriors...at Spirit Lake, this event became known as the Spirit Lake Massacre. In an attempt to capture Inkpaduta, on 9 May 1857, Commissioner...
Eyewitness Account of the Boston Massacre (1770)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE BOSTON MASSACRE (1770) The so-called Boston Massacre of 5 March 1770 created the greatest schism to...and govern themselves. In the aftermath of the massacre, British troops were removed from Boston. John...
Amritsar massacre
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Amritsar massacre (13 April 1919) A massacre of unarmed supporters of Indian self-government by British...British had been mounting as a result of the ROWLATT ACT . The massacre in Amritsar followed the killing, three days before, of...
Balangiga massacre
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Balangiga massacre massacre of a U.S. infantry company during an insurrection by Filipino...September 28, 1901, at Balangiga, Samar, the Philippines. The massacre provoked swift and brutal retribution by U.S. Brig. Gen. Jacob...

Thesaurus entries related to "Massacre"

massacre
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus massacre • noun   1. a cold-blooded massacre of innocent civilians synonyms : slaughter, wholesale...xA0; 2. informal the game was an 8–0 massacre. See rout noun sense 2. • verb  ...
kill
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...do to death, slaughter, butcher, massacre, assassinate, liquidate, wipe out...assassinate, dispatch, execute, massacre, murder, slaughter, slay When it comes...civilians provoked a worldwide outcry). Massacre also refers to the brutal murder of large...
dispatch
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...put to death, take/end the life of; slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, exterminate, eliminate; murder, assassinate...dispatch of the rogue bull synonyms : killing, slaughter, massacre, extermination, elimination; murder, assassination, execution...
slaughter
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 2. innocent civilians are being slaughtered synonyms : massacre, murder, butcher, kill (off), annihilate, exterminate...xA0; 1. the slaughter of 20 demonstrators synonyms : massacre, murdering, (mass) murder, mass killing, mass execution...
murder
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre; manslaughter; literary slaying.   2. informal...liquidate, eliminate, dispatch, butcher, slaughter, massacre, wipe out; informal bump off, do in, do away with, knock...
pogrom
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English pogrom • noun   synonyms : massacre, wholesale/general slaughter, mass killing, mass murder, mass homicide, carnage, blood bath, genocide, ethnic cleansing, megadeath.
mow
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English mow • verb   synonyms : cut, trim, crop, clip, scythe, shear. phrase: mow down   armies mowing down the townspeople synonyms : slaughter, massacre, butcher, cut to pieces, cut down, decimate.
killing
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...x2022; noun   1. guilty of killing synonyms : slaying, murder, manslaughter, homicide, slaughter, butchery, massacre, bloodshed, carnage, liquidation, destruction, extermination, execution, patricide, matricide, infanticide. See kill...
carnage
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English carnage • noun   synonyms : slaughter, wholesale slaughter, butchery, massacre, mass murder, mass destruction, indiscriminate bloodshed; blood bath, holocaust, pogrom; inf. shambles.
vanquish
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...quell, quash, crush, bring someone to their knees, tear someone apart; informal lick, hammer, clobber, thrash, smash, demolish, wipe the floor with, make mincemeat of, massacre, slaughter, annihilate, cream, skunk, shellac.

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'Web' of Mtn. Massacre documents vexes historians
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 5/25/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...determine exactly how the Mountain Meadows Massacre came about and who had prior knowledge...room about documents relating to the massacre that have either been "lost, suppressed...of Juanita Brooks' 1950 book on the massacre, she was "denied access to relevant...
Palestine: Another Massacre.
Newspaper article from: The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA); 12/28/2008; 700+ words ; ...committed against the Arabs starting with the Massacre at Baldat al-Shaikh in December 1947...Lebanon in 1996 and 2006. Another brutal massacre is being committed in Gaza today.Aa...committed by the Zionists since 1947: Massacre in Baldat al-Shaikh (31 December 1947...
BYU professor offers new insight on massacre
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/14/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...history such as the Mountain Meadows Massacre are often considered to be a blot on...Monday at Utah Valley State College. This massacre and specifically, the church's investigation into the massacre, was the subject of Alexander's presentation...
Mormon massacre to get film treatment
News Wire article from: University Wire; 5/24/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...recreating the events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre on film was enough to pull a Hollywood...11, 1857. "[The Mountain Meadows Massacre] so closely resembles the religious...in Canada rather than the site of the massacre because of the controversy tied to the...
Sen. Salazar Introduces Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark Act
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/26/2008; 700+ words ; ...Colorado, has introduced the Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark Act (S...legislation that would "designate the Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark in the State...text of the legislation follows:Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark ActS. 2893To...
Massacre in Munich: The Manhunt for the Killers Behind the 1972 Olympics Massacre.(One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God")(Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response)(Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Middle East Policy; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; Massacre in Munich: The Manhunt for the Killers behind the 1972 Olympics Massacre, by Michael Bar-Zohar and Eitan Haber. The...September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God...
Historian discusses 1857 massacre
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 2/17/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...evidence relating to the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857, and the investigation...Latter-day Saints. The victims of the massacre were emigrants traveling from Arkansas...September is the 150th anniversary of the massacre. A film about the massacre called...
Young 'did not order massacre'
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 5/25/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Brigham Young ordered the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and ample evidence that says he did...six years writing a book about the 1857 massacre of 120 Arkansas wagon train emigrants...that Brigham Young did not order the massacre." The book is scheduled for release...
Rep. Salazar Introduces Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark Act
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/28/2008; 700+ words ; ...Colorado, has introduced the Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark Act (H...legislation that would "designate the Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark in the State...text of the legislation follows:Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark ActH.R...
4th Ld-Writethru: China mourns for victims of Nanjing Massacre, wishes for eternal peace
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 12/13/2007; 700+ words ; ...China mourns for victims of Nanjing Massacre, wishes for eternal peace NANJING...Thursday to mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, murdered by invading Japanese soldiers...college students,survivors of the massacre and international friends, passed a...