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List of Alamo defenders. Partial scan of the March 24, 1836 Telegraph and Texas Register with the first Texian list of defenders killed at the Battle of the Alamo. The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a crucial conflict of the Texas Revolution. In 1835, colonists from the United States joined with Tejanos (Mexicans born ...
The International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi presented to the United Nations Security Council in 1996 concluded that the Ikiza was a genocide. [134] As much as 10% to 15% of the Hutu population of Burundi killed [133] Bangladesh genocide. East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) 1971. 300,000[135] 3,000,000[135][136]
t. e. Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people [a] in whole or in part. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) of 1948 as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national ...
Bucharest, Romania: 4: Hădăreni riots: 20 September 1993: Hădăreni, Mureș County, Romania: 3: 2012 Bucharest hair salon shooting: 5 March 2012: Bucharest, Romania: 5: A 51-year old man killed 2 people and injured another 8 people in a salon in Bucharest. Gheorghe Dinca killings: 25 July 2019: Caracal, Romania: 2: A 65-year old man is ...
John Walker Baylor, Jr. Soldier. 1813–1836. According to his family, Baylor left the Alamo as a courier, probably February 25. He died of complications from wounds suffered at the Battle of San Jacinto. [31][32] Anselmo Bergara. Soldier. 1778–. He and Andrew Barcena had been part of Seguín's company.
Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian, founded the Annales School of historiography. France Bloch-Sérazin (1913–1943), chemist, bomb-maker for the Resistance. Tony Bloncourt (1921–1942) Marc Boegner (1881–1970) Cristina Luca Boico (1916–2002) Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle (1922–1942), assassinated admiral François Darlan.
The pacification resulted in mass deaths of the indigenous people in Cyrenaica—one quarter of Cyrenaica's entire population of 225,000 people died during the conflict. [ 181 ] [ 187 ] Italy committed major war crimes during the conflict; including the use of chemical weapons , the refusal to take prisoners of war and the execution rather than ...
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland. James Hamilton. The first assassination carried out with a firearm. 1628. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral /royal favourite. John Felton. Stabbed in Portsmouth as he planned a second expedition to La Rochelle. 1679. James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews.