The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (125 page)
Authors: Matthew White
Florence, 200
Florida, 189
Flower Wars, 157
Forbath, Peter, 332
Force Publique, 329
Ford, Henry, xv
Foreign Legion, 282, 426, 459, 460
Fort Donaldson, Battle of, 300
Fort Mims, 182
Fort Sumter, 299
Fort William Henry, 181
Fourteenth Amendment, 300, 301
Fourth Crusade, 104
France, 37, 64, 72, 102, 104, 105, 107, 109, 127–29, 132–39, 161, 170, 181, 198–205, 215, 217, 220–21, 239, 249–51, 252, 253, 256, 258, 273–74, 282–84, 286, 294–96, 307–8, 320, 324, 327, 336, 338, 345, 346–56, 359, 361, 362, 364, 370, 387, 398, 400, 401, 402, 403, 405, 409–10,
412,
413, 416,
417,
418, 421, 422, 425–26, 439, 458–60, 465, 478, 491, 505, 530, 531, 533, 537, 539, 541, 544, 545, 546, 551, 552, 553, 592
n,
595
n
France, Anatole, 330
Francis, Duke of Anjou, 203
Francis II, King of France, 199, 200
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 125–26
Franco, Francisco, 394, 604
n
Franco-Dutch War, 338, 557, 592
n
Franco-Prussian War, 307–8, 318, 338, 345, 531, 541, 544, 551
Frank, Anne, 185, 394
Franklin, Benjamin, 108
n
Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, 103
Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, 217, 252–53, 256, 271, 536, 539
Fredericksburg, Battle of, 299
Frederick William I, King of Prussia, 256
Freedmen’s Bureau, U.S., 595
n
Free French, 410
Freemasons, 397, 407
Free Territory, 359, 364–65
Freetown, 168–69, 326
French, Percy, 317
French Indochina War, 416, 425–26, 531, 546, 552
French Revolution, 170, 259–60, 261, 270, 273, 338, 561
French Second Republic, 170
French Union, 426
Friedland, Battle of, 264
Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), 497–98
Fu, Dowager Princess, 44,
45
Fu dynasty, 44
Fur, 464
Futurism, 351
Fynn, Henry Francis, 280–81
Gaddafi, Muammar, 559
Gaiseric, King of the Vandals, 67
Galdan Tsereng, Khan of Dzungaria, 254
Galilee, 50
Gallic War, 37–40, 530, 545, 551
Gallipoli, Battle of, 350, 351, 352
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 427, 428
Gangetic Plain, 538
Gang of Four, 437
Gansu Corridor, 302–3
Garang, John, 462
García Lorca, Federico, 397–98
Gaugamela, 7
Gaul, 24, 37–40, 63, 65, 67, 68, 556
Gaza, 280
Geneva, 199
Geneva, Lake, 37
Geneva Accords, 508
Genghis Khan,
see
Chinggis Khan
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
(Weatherford), 115–16
Genoa, 105
George III, King of England, 538
Georgia, Republic of, 123, 359, 382
Georgia (U.S.), 161, 182, 376
Gerasimov, Mikhail, 153
German East Africa, 357
German Empire, 99
German principalities and states, 5, 102, 105, 192, 215–22, 218, 220, 221, 248, 251, 253, 256, 269, 307, 311
n,
557
German War (227), 556
Germany, East, 390, 411, 424, 456
Germany, Imperial, 99, 307, 327, 331, 338, 344, 345, 346–56, 357, 359, 361, 362, 366, 367, 519, 520, 541, 553, 595
n
Germany, Nazi, 23, 108, 153, 191, 312, 377, 378, 387–89, 390, 393, 397, 398, 400, 401–5, 406, 407–8, 415
n,
416,
417,
418, 420–24, 445, 532
n,
535, 540, 545, 546, 564, 565, 607
n,
608
n
see also Holocaust
Germany, West, 390, 424, 444, 481
Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution
(Morris), 25
n
Gettysburg, Battle of, 299, 537
Ghana, 83, 162
Gibbon, Edward, 70–71, 74, 77, 111
Gladstone, William, 322
Glazier, Dave, 337
n
Godfrey of Bouillon, 101
Godunov, Boris, 208–9, 211–13, 214, 538
Godunova, Irina, 208, 213
God Worshippers’ Society, 282, 288–90
Goguryeo-Sui Wars, 78–79, 531, 545, 552
Golconda, 235
Golden Horde, 147, 149–50, 153
Goliath Spring, Battle of, 131
Gondar, 323
Gongsun Yuan, 56
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 489, 507
Gordion knot, 6
Gordon, Charles, 292, 321–22, 323
Gothic War (269), 556
Goths, 60–61, 62, 70, 72, 74, 76–77, 556
Gowon, Yakubu, 478, 479–80
Goya,
411
Goya, Francisco de, xvi, 265
Grand Alliance, 249–51
Grand Army, 268–69
Grand Canal (China), 140, 228
Granicus River, 6
Grant, Ulysses S., 300
Gratian, Emperor of Rome, 61,
63
Gratianus,
63
Graziani, Rodolfo, 396
Great Britain, 38, 64, 72, 82, 83, 103–4, 110, 132–39, 161, 164, 166, 168–69, 170, 181, 183, 199, 221, 224, 229, 231–32, 242, 249, 252, 253, 256, 257, 259, 261, 263, 264–65, 267, 268, 269, 270, 273, 274, 285–86, 294–96, 313, 320, 329–30, 334, 338, 345, 346, 347, 349–56, 359, 361, 364, 387, 388
n,
400, 401, 402, 403, 405, 406, 409, 411, 415,
417,
418, 421, 422, 432, 439, 443, 481, 537, 538, 553
see also British Empire
Great Depression, 397, 398, 400
Great Lake Region (Africa),
496,
519, 523
Great Leap Forward, 433–34, 454
Great Northern War, 244, 247–48, 250, 338, 531, 543, 561
Great Purge, 385–87, 455
Great Turkish War, 237–39, 531, 546
Great Wall of China, 16, 89, 224, 225, 226, 348, 380, 570
n
Great Wrath, 248
Greco-Turkish War, 191, 251, 370–71, 531, 544, 600
n
Greece, 3–7, 24, 27, 34, 50, 98, 99–100, 104, 167, 191, 193–94, 239, 251, 267, 336, 345, 352, 356, 370–71, 390, 402, 406, 416, 418, 439, 474, 475, 531, 535, 544, 558, 600
n
Green Army, 359, 365
Greenland, 193
Greenwood (Lulin) Army, 47–48
Gregory IX, Pope, 538
Grenada, 172
Grigoriev, Nikifor, 365
Grousset, Rene, 124
Guadalajara, Battle of, 276
Guajardo, Jesus, 342, 343
Guanajuato, 275–76
Guanches, 192
Guangwu, Emperor of China, 44
n,
48–49, 54
Guangzhou (Canton) Province, 286, 291, 373–74
Guan Yu, 54
Guardian,
388
n
Guatemala, 94, 95, 475
Guernica bombing (1937), 398
Guevara, Che, 524
Gui, Prince of, 228–29
Guinea, 394
Guinea Company, 164
Guise family, 200, 201, 202
Gulag, xv, 384–85, 387, 389, 391–92, 393, 394, 407
n,
584
n,
608
n
Gulf of Guinea, 161
Gulf of Tonkin, 298
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964), 466, 471
Gulf War, 41, 363, 508, 510–11, 514–15
Guomindang (Nationalist Chinese Party), 372–81, 402, 408, 416,
417,
418, 429, 430, 432, 444, 454, 533, 563, 607
n
Gurganj, 121
Guru Nanak Dev, 234
Guru Tegh Bahadur, 234
Gustav IV Adolf, King of Sweden, 539
Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, 217–18, 219, 220
Gypsies (Roma people), 191, 393, 408, 418, 545
Habre, Hissene, 394
Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 51, 71
Hagia Sophia, 75
Hague Convention (1899), 337
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, 395, 396, 486, 487, 488, 489
Haiphong, 426
Haiti, 161, 166, 170, 267, 273–74, 394, 531, 545, 546, 549, 550, 561
Haitian Slave Revolt, 170, 273–74, 531, 561, 545, 546, 549, 550
Hakim, Caliph al-, 96
Hakka people, 288, 303, 373
n
Halabja attack (1988), 510
Halliday, John, 434, 437–38
Hamburg bombing (1943), 415
Han dynasty, 9, 10, 44 , 45, 46, 47, 48, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 141, 142, 572
n
Han Liner, 141
Hannibal, 18–19, 33, 376
Hannibal: A History of the Art of War among the Carthaginians and Romans
(Dodge), 570
n
Hanoi, 425, 465, 469, 473
Hanover, 247
Hapsburg dynasty, 215, 216–17, 218, 220, 221, 249–51, 344, 346
Harfleur, Battle of, 135
Hariharpara, 482
Harris, P. M. G., 572
n
Harrison, George, 488
Hasdrubal, 19
Hattin, Battle of, 102
Hausa-Fulani, 478
Havana, 64, 335
Hearst, William Randolph, 331
Heart of Darkness
(Conrad), 325, 329
Hebrews, 192–93
Hegira, 321
Heidelburg, 217
He Jin, 55
Helen, 535
Hemingway, Ernest, 371, 399
Henan Province, 434
Henna, 27
Henry I, Duke of Guise, 202, 203–4
Henry II, King of France, 199, 203
Henry III, King of France, 203–4
Henry IV, King of France, 201, 202–5
Henry V, King of England, 132, 135–36
Henry V
(Shakespeare), 132
Henry VI, King of England, 136, 137
Herat, 122, 148–49, 506
Hercules, 24
Herero, 192
Herod, xiii
Herodotus, 4
n
Heruli, 59, 68
Herzegovina, 110, 345, 346
Hicks, William (Hicks Pasha), 321
Hidalgo, Miguel, 275
Hippolytus, 24
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 378, 417
Hiroshima bombing (1945), xiv, 337–38, 378, 416, 419, 532
n,
607
n,
608
n
Hispaniola, 173, 175–76
Historia Augusta,
556
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century, xiii
Hitler, Adolf, xiii, 42, 108
n,
113, 116, 271, 350–51, 378, 387, 388, 393, 394, 400, 401–2, 403, 406, 410, 411, 415
n,
421, 422, 434, 533, 535, 537, 538, 539, 542, 556, 560, 561, 563, 565
Hitler Youth, 401
Hiwis (Hilfswillige) (volunteers), 389
Ho Chi Minh, 425–26, 465
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 467, 472
Hochschild, Adam, 332
Hohenzollern dynasty, 344
Holocaust, xiii, xiv, xv, 23, 42, 108, 116, 125, 185, 186, 190, 191, 312, 365, 377, 393, 394, 400, 407–8, 414, 420, 495, 532
n,
561
Holodomor, 190