The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (129 page)

Plymouth, 181, 185

Poitiers, Battle of, 134, 137

Polacken,
424

Poland, 111, 123, 202–3, 207, 209–11, 212, 213, 217, 237, 238, 247, 252, 261, 338, 356, 357, 359, 361, 362, 365–66, 387, 388, 390, 398, 402, 408, 410,
412,
417, 418, 421, 422, 423–24, 454, 456, 532
n,
554

Policharki prison, 505

Polish Home Army, 410

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 207

Polish Winged Hussars, 238

Polo, Marco, xv

Pol Pot, 456, 492, 494, 495

Poltava, 248

Polybius, 570
n

Pomerania, 256, 422

Pomona, 96

Pompeii, 60

Pompey, 30, 36

Ponce de Leon, Juan, 175–76

Pontics, 571
n

Pontus, 34–36, 571
n

Poona, 311

Popular Front, 397, 398

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), 499–500

Populists, 315, 401

Porfirio Díaz, José de la Cruz, 339, 340

Port Harcourt, 479

Portugal, 72, 81, 161, 162, 164, 168, 173, 196, 224, 249, 259, 265, 286, 327, 400, 497, 500, 538, 539, 557

post-colonial Africa, 503–4, 552

Postoloprty, 423

Potomac River, 181

Potosi silver mine, 180, 584
n

Potsdam Conference (1945), 423

Powhatan Indians, 172, 181, 185, 186, 189

Poyang, Lake, 142, 580
n

Pragmatic Sanction, 252

Prague, 99, 216, 532

Prescott, William, 160

Pretoria, 65

Priam, 193

Prince, The
(Machiavelli), 200

Princip, Gavrilo, 346

Probus, Emperor of Rome, 556

Procopius, 74, 75, 76, 77

Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia, 359, 364

Prussia, 252–53, 256–58, 259, 261, 264, 268, 269, 307–8, 311
n,
318, 338, 345, 410–11, 422, 423, 531, 544, 551

Pruth River, 244

Puebla, Battle of, 341

Punic Wars, 13–14, 18–19, 27, 530, 531, 543

Punjab, 150, 427–28

Punti-Hakka Clan Wars, 303

Puntland, 517

Pusan, 441, 442, 444

Pusan Perimeter, 442

Pushkin, Alexander, 213

Puyi, Emperor of China, 372, 375

Pyongyang, 78–79, 442, 449

Pyrenees, 63

Qazwin, 123

Qianlong, Emperor of China, 254–55

Qi kingdom, 10

Qing dynasty, 227–30, 285–93,
287,
297–98, 302–3

Qin kingdom, 8, 10–11, 254, 569
n

Qin Shi Huang Di, 8, 11–12, 15–17, 44, 530, 548, 550

Quatre Bras, Battle of, 269

Quebec, Battle of, 258

Queztalcoatl, 157

Rabe, John, 377

Radcliffe, Cyril, 428

Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur, 482

Raichur Doab, 144–45

Rais, Gilles de, 137
n

Rajputs, 235

Ramree Island, 419

Rangoon, 448

Rapanui, 193

Ravenna, 62, 65, 76

Ravensberg, 256

Raymond, Count of Toulouse, 101

Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, 127–28, 129

Reagan, Ronald, 559

Reconquista, 556

Red Army, 361, 364, 365, 366–68, 369, 378, 387–89, 390, 403–5, 410–11, 423, 540, 605
n,
608
n

Red Cliff,
54

Red Crescent, 318

Red Cross, 318, 479–80, 501

Red Eyebrow Rebellion, 47–49

Red Guards, 435–36

Red Rubber
(Morel), 330

Red Stick faction, 182

Red Turban Rebellion, 141, 289, 303

Reformation, 198–205, 215–22

Reginald of Chatillon, 102, 103

Reid, James J., 558

Reign of Terror, 260

Remarque, Erich Maria, 394
n

Renaissance, 146, 172, 200

Republic, Not an Empire, A
(Buchanan), 421

Republican Party, U.S., 171, 299, 471

Republican Spain, 397–99

Republic of Korea (ROK),
see
South Korea

Republic of Vietnam (RVN), 465–73

Reykjavik, 85

Rhee, Syngman, 439–40, 533

Rheims, 137

Rhineland, 99, 221

Rhine River, 258, 307, 410

Rhine Valley, 38, 63, 64, 67

Rhodesia, 497

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 421

Richard I (the Lionheart), King of England, 98, 103–4

Richard II, King of England, 134

Richard III, King of England, 539

Richelieu, Cardinal, 221

Richmond, Battle of, 299

Riego, Rafael de, 276

Riga, 403

Río de la Plata, 304, 305

Rio Salado, Battle of, 557

River Congo, The
(Forbath), 332

Roanoke Colony, 185

Robespierre, Maximilien, 260

Rocroi, Battle of, 221

Roehm, Ernst, 535

Romance of the Three Kingdoms
(Luo), 53, 54, 56, 58

Roman Empire, xvi, 5, 22–40, 50–52, 59–73,
63,
80, 85, 108, 109, 112, 137, 158, 159, 267, 336, 394, 529, 531, 544, 551–52, 553, 556, 561, 570
n

Romania, 192, 294, 317, 352, 356, 390, 400, 402, 403, 404, 408,
417,
418, 423, 424, 456

Roman-Jewish Wars, 50–52, 109, 365, 531, 536, 546

Romano, Ezzelino da, 394

Romanov, Anastasia, 207, 211

Romanov, Fedor (Brother Philaret), 211–12

Romanov, Michael, 212

Romanov dynasty, 212, 344, 359–61

Roman Republic, 13–14, 18–19,
20
–
21,
22–23, 27–40, 41, 59, 192, 394, 533, 546, 570
n

Roman Slave Wars, 27–31, 530, 546

Roma people, 191, 393, 408, 418, 545

Rome (city), 32, 64–65, 67–68, 76, 105, 401–2

Rome-Berlin Axis (1936), 401–2

Romulus Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 68

Roosevelt, Theodore, 331

Rotterdam bombing (1940), 415

Roughing It
(Twain), 556

Roundheads, 231–32

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 168

Roy, Rammohun, 577
n

Royal Navy, 168–69, 263, 264, 267, 274

Rubincam, Catherine, 41

Rudolf, Lake, 82

Rumbula Forest, 403

Rummel, Rudolph J., 186, 532
n

Rupilius, Publius, 28

Rurik dynasty, 208, 214

Russia, 42, 369–70, 449–52, 454, 457

see also Soviet Union

Russia, Imperial, 5, 110, 123, 148, 150, 153, 206, 207–14, 217, 229, 237, 242–48, 250, 254, 256, 258, 259, 261, 264, 268–69, 270, 294–96, 303, 316–19, 338, 344, 345, 346–47 351–352, 353, 354, 355, 388, 394, 400, 413, 417, 419, 529, 531, 533, 538, 544, 545, 546, 551, 553, 557–58, 563–64, 589
n
–90
n

Russian Civil War, 110, 355, 356, 357, 359–69, 378, 383
n,
454, 529, 535, 544, 545, 551, 563

Russian Federation, 449–52

Russian Front, World War II, 403–5, 406, 540, 546

Russian Orthodox Church, 209–10, 212, 242, 243, 294

Russian Provisional Government, 359

Russian Revolution, 212, 354, 357, 359
n,
360–61, 367
n

Russo-Tartar War, 206, 546, 531, 551

Russo-Turkish War, 316–19, 531, 546

Ruzi, Emperor of China, 45–46,
45,
48

Rwanda, 124, 125, 190
n,
191, 192, 357, 527, 530, 545

Rykov, Aleksey, 383, 386

Rzhevsky, 386

Sack of Rome (A.D. 409), 64–65, 67–68

Sagasta, Praxedes Mateo, 335

Saguntum, 18

Sahara Desert, 83–84, 326, 357

Sahel, 83, 84, 461

Sahu, Battle of, 226

Saigon, 466, 469, 473, 490

Saint-Arnaud, Armand-Jacques, 283

Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572), 201–2

St. Clair, Arthur, 182

Saint-Dominique, 161, 166, 170, 273–74, 394, 561

Saint Helena Island, 269

Saint Mark’s Square, 104

Saint Petersburg, 242, 247, 296, 347, 359–61, 362, 364, 365, 386, 404–5, 419, 537

see also Leningrad

Sakarya River, Battle of the, 371

Saladin, 98, 102, 103

Salamis, Battle of, 4, 5

Sale, George, 196
h

Salisbury, Lord, 312–13

Salonica, 61, 371

Salsu River, 79

Salvius, 29

Salween River, 297

Samara, 364

Samarkand, 146, 148, 152, 153

Sambhaji, King, 235

Sanchez, Guadalupe, 343

Sand Creek River, 182

Sandinistas, 453
n

Sandler, Stanley, 444
n

Santa Isabel massacre, 342

Santee Sioux Indians, 182

Saracens, 98, 99–101, 102, 103, 104, 168, 621
n

Sarai, 150

Sardinia, 259

Sardis, 3

Saudi Arabia, 485, 507, 512

Saurashtra, 234

Savimbi, Jonas, 499, 500

Saxony, 215, 247, 252, 253, 256, 257, 259, 269, 533

Sayfi, 122

Schleswig-Holstein, 345

Scipio Africanus, 19

Scotland, 199, 219

“Scramble for Africa,” 323
n,
519

Scythians, 35

Second Artois, Battle of, 350

Second Coalition, 263, 264

Second Congo War, 523–28, 530, 544

Second Crusade, 102

Second French War of Religion, 537

Second Mithridatic War, 35

Second Persian War, 3–5, 6, 531, 545, 546

Second Punic War, 18–19, 530, 533, 543, 551

Second Servile War, 28–29

Second Sudanese War, 462–63

Second War of Independence, 334–35

Second World War, The
(Keegan), 400
n,
418
n

Secret Army Organization (OAS), 458, 460

Sedan, Battle of, 308

Seelow Heights, 411

Segal, Ronald, 87

Sekou Toure, Ahmed, 394

Seleucia, sack of, 556

Seljuk Turks, 101

Sen, Amartya, 309, 434

Senate, Roman, 28
n,
30, 32, 37
n,
40, 556

Senate, U.S., 466, 471

—see also Congress, U.S.

Sengoku Jidai, 557

Senzangakhona, Zulu Chief, 277

Seoul, 65, 442, 444

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, xiv, xv, 357, 508

Sequani, 38

Serapeum, 61

Serbia, 317, 345, 346, 400

Serbs, 107, 110, 191, 238, 316, 317, 345, 346, 362, 400, 416

Servile Wars, 27–31

Sevastopol, Siege of, 294, 295, 296