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The Great Massacre, illustration from page 237 of An illustrated history of the New world: containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ... and a complete history of the United States...

Doctor Joseph Warren (1741-1775) was a physician from Boston, Massachusetts, who became an important political leader of the Patriot movement during the early years of the American Revolution (c. 1765-1789). Known for dispatching Paul Revere...

The Bloody Massacre, depicting the Boston Massacre that occurred on 5 March 1770, engraving by Paul Revere, 1770. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A modern mural showing a scene of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 in Amritsar, India. Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer (1864-1927) had infamously ordered his men to shoot upon an unarmed crowd killing hundreds and wounding over 1,500...

The massacre at New Orleans, tempera painting by Thomas Nast, 1867. Nast depicts here President Andrew Johnson adorned in kingly dress as the New Orleans Massacre of 1866 unfolds around him, wherein White rioters, many of whom were ex-Confederates...

Cheyenne warrior Mochi ("Buffalo Calf", l. c. 1841-1881), pictured on the right, took up arms against US government forces after surviving the Sand Creek Massacre of 29 November 1864. Prior to the massacre, she was among those seeking peaceful...

Catherine de' Medici (l. 1519-1589) was the queen of France, mother of three kings and two queens and, between 1559 and c. 1576, the most powerful woman in France and, possibly, all of Europe. She was the strength behind the French throne...

The Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) is the most famous engagement of the Great Sioux War (1876-1877). Five companies of the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876) were wiped out in one day by the...

Map detailing the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane which took place on 10 June 1944, near Limoges in the south-west of France. During the Second World War (1939-45), 643 innocent men, women and children were killed by soldiers of the 2nd SS...

The dead body of Lakota Sioux Chief Spotted Elk (also known as Big Foot, l. 1826-1890) lies in the snow after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890. US National Archives and Records Administration.