6 sentences with “horrible”

Potosi had the most enormous silver deposits in the world at the time, producing thousands of tons of silver for the crown. It also represented a horrible place of slave labour for the natives of the whole area.

The first few months were a horrible disaster for the Soviets. The Soviet air force was completely destroyed, as were most of its armoured divisions. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers were taken prisoner.

There were many benefits, including exemption from local laws that non-citizens were obliged to follow, and wealthy citizens were exempt from the most horrible forms of punishment and execution as well (such as crucifixion).

The French retreat was a horrible debacle. The Russians attacked weak points in the French line and ambushed them at river crossings, disease ravaged the ranks of the malnourished French troops and the weather steadily worsened.

As noted in the last chapter, one of the events that lost the Peloponnesian War for Athens was the fact that 20,000 of its publicly owned slaves were freed by the Spartans from the horrible conditions in the silver mines of Athens.

In 542, during the Italian campaign, a horrible plague (the "Plague of Justinian") killed half the population of Constantinople and a third of the population of the empire as a whole. This had an obvious impact on military recruitment and morale.