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Cahura-Joligo killed four Natchez during the fighting, but was killed along with 12 of his warriors. His war chief Brides les Boeufs (Buffalo Tamer) repulsed the attack. He rallied the warriors, and after fighting for five days and nights, regained control of the village. Twenty Tunica were killed and as many wounded in the fighting.
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.
[28] [29] Today, most historians recognize that Yagüe killed thousands of militiamen and civilians after the fall of the city and burned the corpses [30] because he did not want to leave enemies, either soldiers or civilians, to the rear of his army.
25% or more of the Arab population (50,000 people) of Zanzibar were killed by the end of 1964. [156] Maya genocide: Guatemala: 1962 1996 166,000 [159] 166,000 [160] The Guatemalan genocide was the massacre of Maya civilians during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive US-backed Guatemalan military governments.
On November 29, 1729, the Natchez attacked Fort Rosalie, killing more than 200 people, including the Jesuit priest Paul Du Poisson. They carried off as captives most of the French women and children, and their African slaves. On learning of the event, the Yazoo and Koroa, on December 11, 1729, waylaid and killed Rouel and his black slave.
The head of the jury gave them 14 names. These men were taken from jail and, without the benefit of any trial, were lynched on October 12 and 13. The court adjourned. [22] On 16 October, Colonel William Cocke Young, who some say had attempted to moderate the proceedings, was killed while pursuing a group who had killed another man along a creek ...
The web site of a Civil War re-enactor group states with respect to the picket duty performed by the regiment in the early days of the war, and obviously with reference to the Battle of Arlington Mills, also on June 1, 1861: "21-year-old Henry S. Cornell of Company G, a member of Engine Co. 13, was killed and another man wounded one night on ...
The soldiers fired, and four men were killed instantly; one required a second shot. [2] The next five men were made to kneel, and after the shots were fired again, one man remained alive. It was 13-year-old David Shelton who clutched the legs of an officer and begged, "You have killed my old father and three brothers, you have shot me in both ...