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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.
Third Punic War: 450,000 (including 50,000 civilians enslaved) 200,000 Siege of Athens and Piraeus: 87–86 BC Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic War) 400,000 (including prisoners) 200,000 [1] Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) 63 BC Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic War) 12,000+ 5,000 Siege of Alesia: 52 BC Gallic Wars: 200,000 100,000 Siege of ...
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 ...
The worst atrocity in human history wasn’t a single act but the slow unraveling of our own compassion. Every time we turned a blind eye to suffering—from the known genocides to the uncountable ...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill considered it to be the worst defeat in British military history, and it's been credited for undermining British prestige in Southeast Asia. Battle of Midway (June 1942). [42] [43] [28] [page needed] One of the turning points of World War II (Pacific Theatre). [44]
1944. In world history, this year ranks among the worst. The Holocaust was at its height, and much of the world was engulfed in war. In a period spanning mid-May to early July of this year alone ...
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and one campaign during the Iraq War (the Anbar campaign from March 20 2003 to December 7, 2011).
Below is a set of articles which each provide a list of wars within a specific time period, each covering at least several decades or more. List of wars: before 1000; List of wars: 1000–1499; List of wars: 1500–1799; List of wars: 1800–1899; List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002; List of wars ...