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They were around 700 miles (1,100 km) from the nearest land, Saint Helena or Tristan da Cunha. [11] Dudley kept the first tin of turnips until 7 July when its five pieces were shared among the men to last for two days. On or around 9 July, Brooks spotted a turtle, which Stephens dragged on board. This yielded about three pounds (1.4 kg) of meat ...
Some fourteen or fifteen men were shot, including Officer Williams, Joe Selvage and others. Two or three were killed, and a number of houses, chiefly German coffee houses, broken into and pillaged. About 4 o'clock, a vast crowd armed with shotguns, muskets and rifles were proceeding to attack the new German parish of St. Martin of Tours on ...
2.5–3.5 million [48] [18] 1950–1953 North Korea and allies vs. South Korea and allies Korean Peninsula Hundred Years' War: 2.3–3.5 million [49] [50] [29] 1337–1453 House of Valois vs. House of Plantagenet: Western Europe Soviet–Afghan War: 1–3 million [51] [3] 1979–1989 Soviet Union and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan vs ...
Colonel John Chivington led a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia in a massacre of 70–163 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho, about two-thirds of whom were women, children, and infants. Chivington and his men took scalps and other body parts as trophies, including human fetuses and male and female genitalia. [118]
The 12 leaders of a Comanche delegation were shot in San Antonio, Texas while trying to escape the local jail. 23 others including 5 women and children were killed in or around the city. 65 Comanche including 35 women and children were present. 7 Texas militia were also killed at the court house mostly from friendly fire. 13 captives were ...
A study found 3,100 killed and 6,880 were kidnapped, amouting to 2.5% of Yazidis being either killed or kidnapped. [ 77 ] By 2015, upwards of 71% of the global Yazidi population was displaced by the genocide, with most Yazidi refugees having fled to Iraq's Kurdistan Region and Syria's Rojava .
Christina Smith's source from the Wattatonga tribe refers to 11 people killed in this incident by two white men. [140] [141] 1849. Waterloo Bay massacre (Elliston on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula) [142] – tens of Aboriginal Nauo people were killed in retribution for the killing of two settlers and theft of food. [143] [144]
Three men (Eugene Marshall, Wade Patterson, James West) lynched at the same time after the mob broke into jail after threatening the jailor for the keys. All three were hanged from the Chesapeake and Ohio bridge. One rope for two men (Patterson and West) was used, which snapped. Afterward, they were shot multiple times. [45] Patterson, Wade