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of Occurrences 407%

In the Afghan war Havelock was with General Sale at Jellalabad at the time that Dr. Brydon brought the news of the massacre of our men by the Afghans; and during the anxious time that followed he was able to render good service in the field and at the council table.

in Occurrences 78%

Amongst all the belligerents Hungary perhaps is the country which in comparison with the population has had the greatest number of dead; the monarchy of the Habsburgs knew that they could count on the bravery of the Magyars, and they sent them to massacre in all the most bloody battles.

at Occurrences 65%

Are there some among them who saw the massacre at Dinant, the terrible things in Lorraine?

on Occurrences 13%

But on the morrow this remnant also, worn out with hunger, wounds, and toil, was charged by the victorious Germans, and either massacred on the spot or offered up in fearful rites on the altars of the deities of the old mythology of the North.

with Occurrences 12%

On the junction of the two brigades, the horrors of Meerut were repeated in the imperial city, and every European who could be found was massacred with revolting barbarity.

by Occurrences 10%

Proctor sent a demand to the fort for surrender, accompanied by the usual threat of massacre by the Indians in case of refusal.

for Occurrences 6%

This design, the massacre for a throne, we feel sure, existed for a long time in Louis Bonaparte's mind.

without Occurrences 4%

They were easily defeated, and massacred without mercy; and it was only by multiplied and horrible executions that their numbers were at length diminished.

to Occurrences 4%

On the approach of Easter, the zeal of superstition, the appetite for plunder, or what is often as prevalent with the populace as either of these motives, the pleasure of committing havoc and destruction, prompted them to attack the unhappy Jews, who were first pillaged without resistance, then massacred to the number of five hundred persons

from Occurrences 4%

In the first, Cromwell, as if he doubted how the shedding of so much blood would be taken, appears to shift the origin of the massacre from himself to the soldiery, who considered the refusal of quarter as a matter of course, after the summons which had been sent into the town on the preceding day; but in the next despatch he assumes a bolder tone, and takes upon himself all the blame or merit of the proceeding.

as Occurrences 3%

He could not have decreed such a massacre as that of Thessalonica, or have revoked such an edict as that of Nantes.

like Occurrences 2%

There will be an increase in race prejudice leading in some communities to actual outbreaks as in Chester and Youngstown and probably to massacres like that of East St. Louis, in which participated not only well-known citizens but the local officers and the State militia.

en Occurrences 2%

The people grew tired of massacres en masse, and executions en detail: even the national fickleness operated in favour of humanity; and it was also discovered, that however a spirit of royalism might be subdued to temporary inaction, it was not to be eradicated, and that the sufferings of its martyrs only tended to propagate and confirm it.

throughout Occurrences 2%

To bring her to this discovery four more foreign wars were to follow before the end of the century, culminating in a siege in Peking and massacres throughout the northern provinces which may be looked on as the fifth act in a long and bloody tragedy.

across Occurrences 1%

Rumours of an impending massacre reached Mush before the end of 1914, at a time when the massacres across the frontier had begun.

over Occurrences 1%

But did his Christian brother really think that all those massacres over which Abdul Hamid had spent so much time and money, had been arranged in order to settle those nasty progressive Germans in the lands that had been so carefully depopulated?

than Occurrences 1%

There is more of a massacre than of a battle in Waterloo.

along Occurrences 1%

" "You don't know that the Santees are on the 'big trail'? of the massacre along the Minnesota River?" "I know nothing.

during Occurrences 1%

The Wyoming massacre during the Revolution and the Black Hawk and Seminole wars at a later period, pale into insignificance when compared to the great outrages committed by these demons during this terrible outbreak.

under Occurrences 1%

A massacre under the very eyes of Europe was perhaps dangerous, so it sufficed to put the entire non-Turkish population over the frontier and lay hands on their property.

before Occurrences 1%

The continuous and simultaneous affirmation of this desire, in all the belligerent countries, can alone put a stop to the bloody massacre before the complete exhaustion of all the peoples concerned.

near Occurrences 1%

Here is a more detailed account of a massacre near Blamont.

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