7 sentences with “massacre”

In 1562 a Guise nobleman sponsored a massacre of Huguenots that triggered decades of war.

That day, the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, would live in infamy in French history as a stark example of religion-fuelled hatred.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.