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The Attica Prison riot took place at the state prison in Attica, New York; it started on September 9, 1971, and ended on September 13 with the highest number of fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings. Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees), all but one guard and three inmates were ...
Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison campus in the Town of Attica, New York, [2] [3] operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. It was constructed in the 1930s in response to earlier riots within the New York state prisons.
Between 6.6–9 million soldiers surrendered and were held in prisoner-of-war camps during World War I. [1] [2]25–31% of Russian losses (as a proportion of those captured, wounded, or killed) were to prisoner status, for Austria-Hungary 32%, for Italy 26%, for France 12%, for Germany 9%; for Britain 7%.
In Africa: 2,620 soldiers were killed and 15,650 porters died. The combined total for Europe and Africa is 58,637. [31] United States War Dept. figures for Belgium are: Total mobilized force 267,000; total casualties 93,061 including killed and died 13,716; wounded 44,686; Prisoners and missing 34,659. [34]
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Some 11,800 British Empire soldiers, most of them Indians, became prisoners after the siege of Kut in Mesopotamia in April 1916; 4,250 died in captivity. [131] Although many were in a poor condition when captured, Ottoman officers forced them to march 1,100 kilometres (684 mi) to Anatolia.
Europe and the Middle East Thirty Years' War: 4.5–8 million [23] [24] 1618–1648 Anti-Imperial Alliance vs. Imperial Alliance Europe Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: 7.7 million [25] 1533–1572 Spanish Empire vs. Inca Empire: South America Reconquista: 7 million [26] [27] [28] 718–1492 Christian peninsular kingdoms vs. Muslim ...
A German U-boat sinks the liner SS Arabic (1902). 44 died including 3 Americans August 21 Middle Eastern, Gallipoli: Scimitar Hill, a phase of the August Offensive. Politics: Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. [24] August 21–29 Middle Eastern, Gallipoli: Battle of Hill 60, part of the August Offensive. August 26 – September 19 Eastern