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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.
Conflict Casualties (High est.) (Low est.) Siege of Tyre: 332 BC Wars of Alexander the Great: 39,000 (including 13,000 civilians and 2,000 executed soldiers) 34,000 Siege of Gaza: 332 BC Wars of Alexander the Great: 14,000 11,000 Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) 213-212 BC Second Punic War: 40,000 (including Archimedes) 9,000 Siege of Carthage ...
The bloodiest single day in the history of the United States military is either June 6, 1944, with 2,500 soldiers killed during the Invasion of Normandy on D-Day, or September 12, 1918, at the start of the Battle of Saint Mihiel, with over 2,500 dead (however, this exact figure is unverifiable because of poor documentation).
Kashmir conflict: 22 October 1947: Ongoing: 77 years, 4 months and 6 days Ethiopian-Somali wars: 1948: Ongoing: 77 years Insurgency in Balochistan: 1948: Ongoing: 77 years Internal conflict in Myanmar: 2 April 1948: Ongoing: 76 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 5 days Arab–Israeli conflict: 15 May 1948: Ongoing: 76 years, 9 months, 1 week and 6 days
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...
According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, "the Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States". [9] [10] After the massacre, state officials concocted an elaborate cover-up, claiming that blacks were planning an insurrection. [8]
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
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