7 sentences with 'massacre'
Example sentences and phrases with the word massacre and other words derived from it.
• « However, the Duke of Guise led a conspiracy to convince the king that only the death of Henry and his followers would truly end the threat of religious division, and with the king's approval Catholic forces launched a massacre on St Bartholomew's Day, 24 August, in which more than 2,000 Protestants were killed. »
• « That day, the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, would live in infamy in French history as a stark example of religion-fuelled hatred. »
• « In 1756, however, an Indian prince sent an army to Calcutta to drive out the British, whom he hated and resented, resulting in the massacre of hundreds of British non-combatants and thousands of their Indian colleagues and allies. »
• « One notorious event was the Peterloo massacre of 1819 in which hundreds of protesting workers in Manchester were gunned down by the middle-class volunteer cavalry. »
• « After reports of a Turkish massacre of Greeks became public in Europe, the Holy Alliance demanded that Turkey grant independence to Greece. The Ottomans refused, so in 1827 a combined British, French and Russian fleet sank an Ottoman fleet. »
• « This racial hatred of native peoples found expression in the American massacre of ninety-six Christian Delawars in 1782. Most of the dead were women and children. »