The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (122 page)

INDEX

Page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations

Abadan, 512

Abd el-Kader, 282–84

“Abdul Abulbul Amir” (French), 317

Abdullahi, Khalifah, 322–23, 324

Aboukir Bay, Battle of, 263

Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 398

Abu Ghraib Prison, 542

Abyssinia, 323–24, 395

Achaeus, 27

Acre, 103, 105–6

Actaeon, 24

Acte Peninsula, 4

Adams, Richard E. W., 97

Addis Ababa, 64, 395–96, 486–87, 488, 489, 604
n

Addis Ababa Agreement (1972), 462

Adoni, 144

Adrianople, Battle of, 60–61

Adriatic Sea, 352

Aegates Islands, 14

Aetius, Flavius, 65, 67

Afar Liberation Front, 486

Afghanistan, 88, 123, 311, 313, 344, 400, 427, 455, 475, 505–8, 512, 530, 533, 537, 545

Africa, 14, 19, 65–66, 72, 74, 77, 80–87, 151–66, 168, 173, 183–84, 229, 235–36, 277–81, 282, 320–33, 357, 376, 395–96, 397, 400, 406,
412,
458–60, 478,
496,
497, 503–4, 552, 557, 559, 560, 582
n

Age of Warring States (China), 8–12, 530, 544, 546, 550

Agincourt, Battle of, 135–36, 137, 138

Agra, 235

Aguascalientes Convention (1914), 341

Aguateca, 96

Ahmed, Muhammad (Mahdi), 321–22, 323

Ai, Emperor of China, 44, 44
n,
45

Ai (biblical city), 109

Aidid, Mohamed Farrah, 517

Alabama, 182

Alamut, 130

Alaric, 62

Albania, 239, 352, 402, 456

Albigensian Crusade, 109, 127–29, 530, 544, 551

Aleppo, 131, 151

Alesia, 39

Alexander, King of the Hellenes, 370

Alexander the Great, 6–7, 50, 263–64, 271, 531, 533, 536, 539, 546

Alexandria, 7, 61

Alexis (son of Peter I), 246

Algeria, 110, 282-84, 336, 338, 458–60, 530, 531, 545, 546

Algerian War of Independence, 458–60, 531, 546

Algiers, 85, 349, 459

Algiers, Battle of, 459

Ali, 148

Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL), 523, 524–25

Allied Control Council, 423–24

Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), 523, 525–26

Allied Powers (Allies), 400, 409–10,
417,
421, 423–24

Alma, Battle of, 295

Alps, 18, 67, 105, 221, 264, 352, 376

Alsace-Lorraine, 345, 541

Alva, Duke of, 111

Amalfitan Hospital, 102

Amazon River, 180–81, 183

Ambiorix, King of the Eubrones, 39

American Holocaust
(Stannard), 185, 186

American Mission, 379

American Revolution, 274

Americas, 108, 109, 156–66, 172–87, 221, 275–76, 529, 538, 545, 550, 552, 585
n

see also North America; South America

Amin, Hafizullah, 506

Amin, Idi, xvii, 393, 484–85, 501, 531, 542, 548, 556

Amnesty International, 525

Amursana, 254, 255

Anabaptists, 215

Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor, 111

Anatolia, 152, 370–71

Ancient Regime, 259

Andenne, 347

Andes, 181

Andom, Aman, 486–87

Angka, 494

Anglo-Belgian India-Rubber Co., 328

Anglo-Boer War, xv, 119
n,
337

Anglo-Sudanese Wars, 320–22

Angola, 455, 475, 497, 523

Angola Civil War, 499–500, 503, 525, 531, 545, 549

Ankara, 151, 370

An Lushan Rebellion, 88–93, 529, 537, 548, 550

Annam, 154

An Qingxu, 91

Anti-Charitable Contributions Act (1877), 312

Antietam, Battle of, 299

Antioch, 100–101, 102, 105, 131

Antiochus (Eunus), 27–28

Anti-Rightist campaign (1957), 431

Antonina, 75, 76

Antonines, 71

Apollo, 34

Appalachian Mountains, 258, 300

Appian, 570
n

Appian Way, 30

Aqua Prieta, Battle of, 342

Aquileia, 67

Aquillius, Manius, 29

Aquirre, Elvira de, 180

Aquirre, Lope de, 180–81

Aquitaine, 134

Arab-Israeli conflict, xv

Arafat, Yasser, 542

Arcadius, Byzantine Emperor, 62,
63

Archangel, 244, 362

Archimedes, 19, 351
n

Ardennes Offensive, 410

Argentina, 189, 304, 305, 326, 475

Arianism, 61–62

Ariovistus, 38

Armageddon, 352

Armenia, 35, 147, 191, 353, 359, 371, 545, 558, 561, 571
n,
596
n
–97
n

Armenian Genocide, 371, 558, 545, 561

Army, U.S., 182, 342, 467, 606
n
–7
n

Arsuf, Battle of, 103–4

Artemis, 34

Artemisia, 4

Arthur, King of the Britons, 64

Asia, 34, 101, 115, 130–31, 146, 153, 173, 183–84, 195–97, 229, 254–55, 298, 327, 363, 364, 375, 408–9,
412,
416, 425, 533, 557

Asia Minor, 3, 6, 34–36

Aspern, Battle of, 264

Assassins, Order of, 130

Association Internationale Africaine, 327

Assyrians, 5, 191, 353

Astrakhan, 150, 212

Astyanax, 193

Asuncion, 305

Atahualpa, 179, 181

Atbara, 324

Athaulf, 65

Athenion, 29

Athens, 3, 64, 193–94, 239, 371

Atlanta, march on, 300

Atlantic slave trade, 81, 83
n,
161–71, 407
n,
529, 545, 547, 549, 550

Atlas of World Population History, The
(McEvedy and Jones), 123, 578
n

Attila the Hun, 59, 66–67, 68, 136–37, 593
n

Auden, W. H., 399

Auerstadt, Battle of, 264

Augsburg, Peace of (1555), 215–16

Augustine, Saint, 61, 66, 98

Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 25, 40, 59, 71

Augustus, King of Saxony, 247

Aurangzeb, 145, 153, 229, 233–36, 529, 538, 545, 546, 552

Auschwitz concentration camp, 408, 419

Austerlitz, Battle of, 264, 265

Australia, 191, 352, 362, 439, 458, 465, 491, 558

Austria, 390

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 215, 216–17, 221, 237–39, 249, 251, 252–53, 256, 259, 261, 262, 264, 268, 295, 316, 338, 344, 345, 346, 356, 357, 358, 363, 401, 531, 551, 553, 563–64, 591
n

Avaricum, Siege of, 39

Axis Powers, 400, 401–2, 406, 408, 416,
417,
419, 421

Ayn Jalut, 131

Ayutthaya, 195–96

Azerbaijan, 123, 370

Azores, 161

Azov, 244

Aztec Empire, xv, 109, 156–60, 172, 174, 177, 186, 530, 538, 548, 552, 585
n

Ba’ath Party, 509

Babi Yar massacre (1941), 403, 560

Babylonians, 5

Bacharach, 219

Badajoz, 398

Badger’s Mouth, 119

Baghdad, 64, 130–31, 151

Bahmani sultanate, 144–45, 531, 546, 552

Bahmani-Vijayanagara War, 144–45, 531, 546, 552

Bai Juyi, 93

Bakr, Ahmad Hassan al-, 509

Balaklava, Battle of, 295

Balboa, Vasco de, 176, 178

Balkans, 62, 66, 77, 86, 316, 345, 346, 352, 356, 358,
412,
563–64

Balkars, 191

Balkh, 121

Baltic Sea, 102, 217, 244, 265, 360, 361, 369, 411, 422

Baltimore, Battle of, 270

Baltimore, Ireland, 85

Banda, Hastings, 394

Bangladesh, 481, 483, 488

Banister, Judith, 437

Banu Qurayza, 193

Banyamulenge, 524

Barbados, 231

Barbary pirates, 85–86, 87, 282

Bardarson, Ivar, 193

Bar Kokhba Revolt, 51–52, 365

Barrie, J. M., 351

Bashir, Omar al-, 463

Basra, Battle of, 513

Basra-Baghdad waterway, 513

Bataan Peninsula, 405

“Battle Hymn of the Republic, The,” 107

Bavaria, 215, 217, 249, 251, 252, 253, 259, 307, 369

Bayezid the Thunderbolt, 151–52

Bayinnaung, 195–96

Bayonne, 201

BBC, 526–27

Bear River, 182

Becker, Jasper, 437

Beijing, 64, 119–20, 140, 141, 224–25, 226, 227, 298, 373, 374, 376, 379, 380, 430, 435, 533

Beijing University, 373

Beiping, 374, 379, 380

Beirut Marine barracks bombing (1983), 337–38

Belarus, 210, 403, 410

Belgian Congo, 320, 325–33, 355, 393, 519, 597
n

Belgium, 82, 111, 220, 221, 269, 326–33, 347, 357, 393, 402, 439, 519–21, 597
n

Belgrade, 110, 346, 415

Belisarius, 75–77

Belzec concentration camp, 408

Benes, Edvard, 423

Bengal, 110, 190, 310, 315, 400, 409, 427–28, 481–83, 530, 545, 552, 577
n

Bengali Genocide, 481–83, 530, 545, 552

Bengal Presidency, 577
n

Benghazi, 83

Benin, 161

ben Kosiba, Simon, 51–52

Bentham, Jeremy, 168

Benti, Teferi, 487

Beowulf,
91

Berar, 314–15

Berbers, 458

Beria, Lavrenty, 386, 387

Berlin, 64, 256, 258, 317, 390, 401–2, 410–11

Berlin, Battle of, 410–11

Berlin agreements (1884), 327, 330

Berlin airlift (1948–49), 390

Beziers, 128–29

Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 482

Biafran War, 478–80, 530, 547

Bible, 109–10, 127, 167–68, 192, 290

Bibracte, Battle of, 37–38

Bihar, 310

Bijapur, 235

Bill of Rights, 300

Binasco, 262

bin Laden, Osama, 357

Bismarck, Otto von, 307, 345