Peter the Great Quotes
Burn the Cossacks, leave nothing behind; slaughter the people; strap the ringleaders to the wheel and impale them; for this mob cannot be pacified except by cruelty.
A Cossack revolt had broken out in 1707 and was put down by the Czar’s forces. He then issued what might be one of the first official orders for genocide. Few Cossacks survived.
Peter I, 1672-1725, Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, Order 1708
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These battles with the Irish—in this case the MacDonnell clan—were brutal atrocities where the winners of the battle killed all the losers and the women and children with them in the case of the Irish.
Campbell carried out the order although many MacDonalds escaped in the highlands. The particular massacre has always taken on an even greater infamy because the Campbell murderers had been given food and hospitality by the MacDonalds. This began the most bitter of the Scottish clan feuds that persists into modern times.
by recent Southern military losses Ironically, it was the Southern States and Southern politicians who had ever since President Andrew Jackson, illegally appropriated most of the Indian lands. It was the Supreme Court who ordered Jackson not to remove the Cherokee, but he and the other Southerners did so anyway with mild protest coming from the North. Neither section treated the Indians fairly, but the South had been much worse.
Howe had written Franklin attempting to stave off a American break with England. Franklin, with the approval of the Continental Congress, replied.
The Greeks committed many atrocities in their war with Turkey. See {584483}
While many of the Indian wars were over land or were defensive in nature, the major motivation for some wars with Indians was pure greed in that captured Indians were sold as slaves.
Yuliy Osipovich Martov. Criticism of the Bolshevik behavior in dealing with counter-revolutionaries in the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. This despite the fact that the death penalty had been abolished right after the Revolution. See {590510}
See Ferdinand I for the Bulgarian denial {601322}.
The French refer to it as the Jacquerie since Jacques was a derogatory name for a peasant since so many men had that as a first name.
Lawrence was a thriving community of abolitionists. Quantrill’s irregular force generally murdered prisoners, scalped them, mutilates their bodies, and wore scalps and body parts as clothing decoration. Quantrill “cleansed” Lawrence by burning virtually every building and killing the male population, See {617769}. It has been a source of great argument as to whether the Confederate command and politicians were fully aware of his actions and endorsed them or didn’t know. Since many of his escapades were printed in the Newspapers of the day, it is probably the case that the Confederate authorities had so much to do, that they just didn’t want to determine the truth of the accusations.
Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan that was treated as a second class area by the Pakistan government. Some Bengalis in Dhaka demonstrated in protest and many were murdered by the Pakistani military and security forces. Rahman called on the government to right the situation. Nothing happened and finally Bangladesh revolted and gained their independence.
Tens of thousands of Iranians were.
Peter the Great, Peter I or Pyotr Alekseevich ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 until his death in 1725, jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half-brother, Ivan V.
