The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (124 page)

Connecticut, 181

Conquest, Robert, 392

Conrad, Joseph, 325, 329, 330

Conrad III, King of Germany, 102

Constantine, Algeria, 283

Constantine I (the Great), Emperor of Rome, 26, 570
n

Constantine I, King of Greece, 370–71

Constantine III, Emperor of Rome, 63–64

Constantinople, 60, 61–62, 66, 70, 74–75, 77, 99, 104, 151, 177, 238, 316, 352, 370

Constantius, Emperor of Rome,
63,
64, 65

Constitution, U.S., 300, 301

Cook, Sherburne, 160

Cooper, D. B., xv

Copenhagen, 64, 267

Corfinium, 32

Coriantumr, 556

Corsica, 261

Cortés, Hernán, 156, 177–78

Corvisier, André, 557

Cotta, Marcus Aurelius, 35

Council of Clermont (1095), 99

Coutras, Battle of, 203

Coxinga (Zheng Chenggong), 229

Crassus, Marcus Licinius, 30

Crecy, Battle of, 133, 137, 138

Creek Indians, 172, 182

Creoles, 166, 275–76

Crespigny, Rafe de, 572
n

Creusa, 193

Crimean Khanate, 206

Crimean Peninsula, 295, 370

Crimean War, 283, 294–96, 317, 338, 531, 543, 551

Crisis of the Ottoman Empire
(Reid), 558

Croatia, 107, 191, 265, 408, 418, 423

Cromwell, Oliver, xvii, 109, 231–32, 531, 544, 545

Crusades, xv, 98–106, 107, 109, 172, 530, 538, 544, 621
n

Cuba, xv, 161, 171, 173, 177, 300, 334–35, 454, 456, 475, 486, 488, 499–500, 531, 546, 550, 585
n,
585
n

Cuban Revolution, 334–35, 531, 546, 550

Cuitlahuac, 185

Cultural Revolution, 435–36, 437, 438, 455, 493, 532
n,
610
n

Curzon, George, Lord, 314

Custer, George Armstrong, 172, 182

Cuzco, 180

Cyprus, 52, 317

Cyrene, 52

Cyzicus, 35

Czech Legion, 359, 363

Czechoslovakia, 357, 387, 390, 402, 418, 422–24, 456

Dabra Libanos monastery, 395

Dacca, 482–83

Dachau concentration camp, 401

Dahmer, Jeffrey, xiv

Dahomey, 161

Dahra, 283

Dai Viet, 154–55

Dali (Xiaguan), 297, 298

Daling River, 380

Damascus, 131, 148, 151

Damghan, 151

Damietta, 105

Da Nang, 473

Danish West Indies, 164

Dante Alighieri, 103

Danube River, 60, 66, 72, 251, 295, 317

Daoud Khan, Mohammad, 505

Dara (son of Shah Jahan), 233

Dardanelles strait, 4, 295, 352

Dares, 556

Darfur, 192, 320, 323, 357, 461, 463–64, 503

Darius I (the Great), King of Persia, 3

Darius III, King of Persia, 6–7

Darwin, Charles, xv

Dash, Mike, 111
n,
558

Davis, Robert C., 87

Dawaji, Khan of Dzungar, 254–55

D-Day, 336, 409–10

Dead Sea Scrolls, 51–52

Death by Government
(Rummel), 532
n

Deccan War, 233, 235, 545, 546

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
(Gibbon), 70–71, 77

de Gaulle, Charles, 425, 459–60

Delhi, 64, 148, 150, 152

Delos, 34

Delphi, 34

Demarest, Arthur, 95

Demeter, 27

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), 467

Democratic Kampuchea, 473, 492–95, 530

Democratic Party, U.S., 471

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

—see North Korea

Democratic Republic of the Congo, 523, 524–25

Deng Xiaoping, 435, 436, 437

Denikin, Anton, 362, 365

Denmark, 164, 215, 217, 242, 247, 248, 249, 259, 318, 344, 345, 402, 539

Derg, 486–87

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 273, 274

Destruction of Dresden, The
(Irving), 415
n

Development as Freedom
(Sen), 309

Devil’s Island, 355

Devil Soldier, The
(Carr), 293

Diamond, Jared, 185

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 160

Dictionary of Military History and the Art of War, A
(Corvisier and Childs), 557

Diderot, Denis, 538

Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, 426

Dinant, 347

Dingiswayo, 277–78

Dinka, 461, 462

Dio, Cassius, 52

Diocletian, Emperor of Rome, 69

Directory, 263–64

Disraeli, Benjamin, 311, 312

Division of the North, 341

Djibouti, 487

Dmitri, Prince, 208–14

Doctors Without Borders, 480

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault, 570
n

Dolores, 275–76

Domitian, Emperor of Rome, 71

Don Cossacks, 359, 362

Dong dynasty, 44

Dong Xian, 44

Dong Zhuo, 55–56

Dorgon the Barbarian, 227–28

Dos Passos, John, 399

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 330

Dresden: Tuesday 13, 1945
(Taylor), 415
n

Dresden bombing (1945), 415, 421, 560

Drogheda, 231

Drusus, Marcus Livius, 32

Dubs, Adolph, 506
n

Duchamp-Villon, Raymond, 351

Dum Diversas,
168

Dungan Rebellion, 303

Dunkirk, 402

Dunlop, John Boyd, 328

Dunning, Chester, 213

Dunning, Nick, 96

Durand, J. D., 124, 572
n,
575
n

Durant, Will, 556

Dutch East India Company, 327

Dutch East Indies, 405, 416

Dutch Republic, 111, 201

Dutch Revolt, 111, 201

Duvalier, François “Papa Doc,” xv, 394

Du Wenxiu (Sultan Suleyman), 297, 298

Dzhugashvili, Yakov, 388

Dzungars, 254–55, 303, 531, 545, 550, 590
n
–91
n

Eagle Knight, 157

Early Modern Area, 218, 220

East Africa, 81–83, 229, 235–36, 325–26, 357, 396, 497

East Asia, 229, 363, 364, 416, 425, 533

Easter Island, 193

Eastern Hemoclysm, 564

Eastern Orthodox Church, 208, 346

Eastern Region, Nigeria, 478–79

Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, 59, 61, 62, 65, 68, 70, 74–77, 98, 100, 104, 110–11, 151

Easter Rebellion (1916), 354–55

East Indies, 405, 416

East Pakistan, 481–83

East Prussia, 410–11, 422, 423

East Timor, 192, 559

Ebro River, 18, 398

Eburones, 39

Economist,
310–11

Edessa, 102

Edict of Nantes (1598), 205

Edict of Restitution (1629), 217

Edward, the Black Prince, 134

Edward III, King of England, 133–34

Edwardian War, 132–34

Egypt, 7, 81, 86, 98, 101, 104, 105–6, 131, 259, 262–63, 320–21, 324, 352, 402, 406, 512, 533

1812 Overture
(Tchaikovsky), xvi

Eight Immortals, 16

Einsatzgruppen, 403

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 465

Elba Island, 269

Elbe River, 269, 410

Elder Demster Shipping, 330

El Dorado, 180–81

Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 257, 258

Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Spain, 201

Elmina, 162

El Niño Southern Oscillation, 314

El Salvador, 475

Elst, Koenraad, 556

Enfield armaments, 336

England, 103–4, 110, 132–39, 199

English Channel, 133, 134, 347

English Civil War, 110, 229, 231

English Commonwealth, 231–32

English language, 166

Enlightenment, 41, 106, 167–68, 259, 273, 553

Entebbe raid (1976), 484

Equiano, Olaudah, 164

Erie Canal, xv

Eritrea, 81, 395, 486, 488

Eritrean Liberation Front, 486

Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, 486

Esdaile, Charles, 591
n

Esquivel, Francisco de, 180

Estonia, 210, 247, 359, 362, 387, 402

Ethiopia, 320, 323–24, 344, 395–96, 439, 455, 474, 486–89, 503, 517, 518, 530, 545, 546, 604
n

Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, 486

Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP), 486, 487

Eugene, Prince of Savoy, 251

Eulji, 79

Eunus (Antiochus), 27–28

Eurasia, 183–84

Europe, xvi, 59, 81, 84, 87, 106, 108, 144, 151, 159, 162–64, 183–84, 221–22, 237,
240–41,
247, 249, 252, 256, 259, 270, 285–86, 326–27, 329, 344, 345–46, 356, 387, 390, 400, 406,
412,
420, 421, 422–24, 458, 459, 504, 509, 530, 538–39, 551, 553, 557, 578
n,
584
n,
585
n

Europe, Eastern, 390, 422–24, 530, 545, 551

Europe, Western, 59,
412,
459

Evans, Richard, 420
n

Ever-Victorious Army, 282, 292

Execution Hill, 443

Extremadura, 398

Eylau, Battle of, 264

Falange, 397

Famine Fund, 313

Fang Kuo-chen, 140

Fang La Rebellion, 109, 113–14, 530, 548, 550

Fatimids, 101

February Revolution (1917), 359–60

Federalist Party, 270

Fedor, Czar of Russia, 208

Fedor II, Czar of Russia, 209, 211

Ferdinand, Archduke of Styria, 216–17

Ferdinand IV, King of Spain, 276

Fifteenth Amendment, 300

Fifth Crusade, 105, 533

Fifth Republic, 459

Final Solution, 407–8

Finland, 210, 248, 356, 359, 362, 387, 390, 402, 404, 408,
412

Firishtah, 145

First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, The
(Knox), 199

First Coalition, 261

First Congo War, 524–25

First Crusade, 99–101

First Emperor, 15–17

First Jewish Revolt, 50–51

First Mithridatic War, 34

First Opium War, 286

First Persian War, 3, 6

First Punic War, 13–14, 531, 543, 551

First Servile War, 27–28

First Sudanese War, 461–62

Fitzgerald, C. P., 575
n

Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion, 55

Flaccilla, Aelia,
63

Flamininus, Titus, 23

Flanders, 201, 249, 351

Flaubert, Gustave, 540

Flaying of Men (Aztec ritual), 157

Flemings, 107

Fletcher, Giles, 587
n