Katyn Massacre – 1940

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In 1939 Poland was a rabbit torn apart by wolves as Nazi Germany invaded from the west and Soviet Russia…

Bath School Disaster – 1927

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Bath is an ordinary little town in rural Michigan, and May 18 1927 was an ordinary spring morning: men went…

The Amritsar Massacre – 1919

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During World War I the Sikh battalions indentured into the British Army won universal respect for their incredible bravery. At…

Badung Puputan – 1906

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The beautiful island of Bali is renowned for its glorious landscapes and beaches, palaces and temples, and its unique culture.…

Massacre of Wounded Knee – 1890

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The beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota were, for the Lakota Sioux, a sacred spiritual and ancestral home. An 1868…

Fall of Tripolista – 1821

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The Ottoman Empire once spanned three continents, but by the 19th century this lumbering behemoth was getting ragged around the…

Peterloo – 1819

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Not for the last time, Britons would discover that winning a prolonged war was no guarantee of good times. The…

The Boyd Massacre – 1809

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By the first decade of the 19th century Australia was an established British colony, but New Zealand remained a distant…

The Black Hole of Calcutta – 1756

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Siraj-ud Daulah became Nawab of Bengal in April 1756 at the age of 23, succeeding his grandfather. The young independent…

Peshawar Bombing – 2009

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Peshawar is a city on the front line, only a few miles from the Taliban-held barren mountain badlands, the ill-defined…