The city was the scene of a great massacre of Indians by the British in mid-1857 during the Indian Mutiny (1857 58) against British rule.
The crown prince, Khosrow, however, was an orthodox Zoroastrian; toward the end of his father's reign, in collaboration with the chief mobed, he contrived to condemn the Mazdakites, who were destroyed in a great massacre in 528.
When her book was translated into Japanese, supporters of the Great Massacre school found they could not defend her figures, which were higher even than those claimed in China.Miss Chang could not bear this nit-picking.
The philhellenic committees that sprang up in Europe and the United States, however, soon raised money for the prosecution of the war and the relief of its victims, such as the survivors of the great massacre on Chíos in 1822, immortalized by the French painter Eugène Delacroix.
The massacres of Native Americans served as a metaphor for Vietnam and the great massacre at My Lai.
His Troy is an apparently impregnable Confederate outpost at Petersburg, Virginia, where the Union engineers dug a long, deep tunnel under the fortifications, filled it with explosives and brought about one of the greatest massacres of the war.
holocaust:...Complete consumption by fire...complete destruction, especially of a large number of persons; a great slaughter or massacre.
Yet the article, which referred to "the greatest massacre in the world's history", was published on the fifth page of a six-page issue.
Vonnegut exploits it shrewdly, counting here and there on the reader to resist pure fatalism, and elsewhere depending on the reader's fatalistic sense of humor: And Billy had seen the greatest massacre in European history, which was the fire-bombing of Dresden.
So how come we are not demanding war crimes trials for those responsible for that even greater massacre, whose perpetrators – reported at the time and recounted in numerous books afterwards — came from the ranks of the special units commanded by Rifaat al-Assad.
