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Over 200 colonists, mostly French men, were killed and more than 300 women, children, and slaves were taken captive. [21] War continued until January 1731, when the French captured a Natchez fort on the west side of the Mississippi River. Between 75 and 250 Natchez warriors escaped and found refuge among the Chickasaw.
In Armutlu women were methodically raped. [17] Circassians participated also in the events. [ 16 ] According to statements gathered by Ottoman officials from the Muslim refugees at the Davut Paşa camp, in total, 35 were reported to have been killed, wounded, beaten, or missing, per the questionnaire submitted by a group of 177 refugees ...
In explicitly Rhodesian units, 127 were killed, 24 died of wounds, 101 died of disease or other causes and 294 were wounded. Of the territory's black African servicemen, 31 were killed in action, 142 died of other causes and 116 were wounded. [109] Total: 18,000 Kingdom of Yugoslavia; The following estimates are for Yugoslavia within the 1991 ...
Austro-Hungarian soldiers executing men and women in Serbia, 1916 [14]. After being occupied completely in early 1916, both Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria announced that Serbia had ceased to exist as a political entity, and that its inhabitants could therefore not invoke the international rules of war dictating the treatment of civilians as defined by the Geneva Conventions and the Hague ...
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
During World War I, conflict on the Asian continent and the islands of the Pacific included naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, the anti-Russian Central Asian revolt of 1916 in Russian Turkestan and the Ottoman-supported Kelantan rebellion in British Malaya.
[176] 83% of those killed were Maya. [177] A quarter of the direct victims of human rights violations and acts of violence were women. [178] 40% of the Maya population (24,000 people) of Guatemala's Ixil and Rabinal regions were killed [citation needed] Tamil genocide: Sri Lanka: 1956 2009 154,022: 253,818
In addition to those killed outright, tens of thousands of men, women, and children died while trying to escape over treacherous mountain passes into China. [22] [page needed] 3,000 Russian settlers were killed during the first phase of the revolt. [21] Overall, 2,325 Russians were killed in the revolt and 1384 went missing. [24]