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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
The following is a list of wars caught by number of U.S. battle deaths suffered by military forces; deaths from disease and other non-battle causes are not included. Although the Confederate States of America did not consider itself part of the United States, and its forces were not part of the U.S. Army, its battle deaths are included with the ...
[15] [16] A Roman army of 34,000 under Scipio Africanus annihilated the Carthaginian army of 50,000 under Hannibal, thus bringing an end to the Second Punic War. Battle of Carrhae (53 BC). [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Crassus with 40,000 soldiers marched into Parthia , expecting to be victorious, chose to march a direct route through the desert instead of the ...
The Spanish Flu, the second deadliest pandemic in history after the bubonic plague, along with the aftermath of World War I and ensuing political and social chaos, made 1918 a tough time to be alive.
This extinction also includes the Black War, which would make the war an act of genocide. [381] Historians like Keith Windschuttle among other historians disagree with this interpretation in discourse known as the History wars. ~100% [381] 1804 Haitian massacre: Haiti: 1804 3,000 [382] 5,000 [382]
Another one bites the dust. No sooner had Grey’s Anatomy returned from its winter break with Thursday’s midseason premiere than ABC’s long-running medical drama had sent a new casualty from ...
Love & War: 7 1992-10-12 Heart attack: 1 Character killed off and replaced by his brother Abe, portrayed by Charlie Robinson. Werner Stocker: Darius: Highlander: The Series: 5 1993-05-27 Brain cancer: 1 Character killed off in the episode that aired only a few days before his death.