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Homicide Please try to start sub projects with the actual cause of death. {note from morel : I am adding a few profiles here, until we establish how we breakdown homicide death. After that, I will move those profiles into their applicable subprojects.} related projects Assassinated Asphyxiated Clergycide Eldercide Family killing family Femicide
==The Raid on Hatfield At eleven o’clock on the bright fall morning of September 19th, 1677, a group of about fifty natives attacked the north end of the frontier town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Even though the colonists had built a defensive stockade the year before, they were caught off guard. The men were helping to frame a new house or working in the fields south of the palisade. The nativ...
==Turner Falls Massacre Captain William Turner and 150 militia volunteers attacked a fishing Indian camp at present-day Turners Falls, Massachusetts. At least 100 women and children were murdered in the attack.===SummaryFrom Turner’s Falls Project >The Native American community known as Peskeompskut-Wissatinnewag was located in the vicinity of current day Turners Falls and is the location of a ...
Crocus City Hall attack On 22 March 2024, an Islamic State terror attack occurred at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The attack began at around 20:00 MSK (UTC+3), shortly before the Russian band Picnic was scheduled to play a sold-out show at the venue. Four gunmen carried out a mass shooting, as well as slashing attacks on the people gathered at the ve...
Indian Massacres Cultural clashes between European settlers and Natives lasted for over four hundred years, from isolated incidents to large scale, organized wars. If the casualty was a civilian, of any background, our goal is to capture their death in a project on this list of “Indian Massacres.” So please add profiles to the massacre projects listed below; those projects are also found in t...
This is an "umbrella" project. Please do not add profiles; please do start related projects, and index them below. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord ActonPower kills; absolute power kills absolutely.-- powerkills website ===Mass murder by a state===From Wikipedia Mass murder may also be defined as the intentional and indiscriminate murder of a large number o...
The Battle of Wyoming (also known as the Wyoming Massacre) was an encounter during the American Revolutionary War between American Patriots and Loyalists accompanied by Iroquois raiders that took place in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778. More than three hundred Patriots were killed in the battle. After the battle, settlers claimed that the Iroquois raiders had hunted and kil...
Wounded Knee Monument is a burying ground for those who were massacred at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. Wounded Knee, hamlet and creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, U.S. It was the site of two conflicts, in 1890 and 1973, between Native Americans and the U.S. federal government. On December 29, 1890, approximately 150–300 ...
The Schenectady Massacre. It was an attack against the village of Schenectady in the colony of New York on 1690-02-08. It was carried out by a party of over 200 French and Sault and Algonquin Indian raiders that set out from Montreal to attack English outposts to the south, and was intended as retaliation for a series of devastating Iroquois raids for which the English had provided weapons and ...
Add people involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre on either side to this project. You can visit HistoryLink to find out which projects include your ancestors. The Mountain Meadows Massacre was the killing of roughly 120 emigrants who were passing through Southern Utah in September 1857. The massacre occurred on September 11, 1857. The emigrants–men, women, and children–were traveling from Ar...
Location of Fort: Ruddle's Station , on E. bank of South Fork of Licking river, 3 miles below the junction of Hinkston's and Stoner's branches, about 7 miles from Paris, in Bourbon Co.In June 1780... British Captain Henry Bird, leading a force of 250 whites and 850 Indians attacked 300 American settlers who had taken refuge at Ruddle's Station, Kentucky . When Bird's force used cannon against t...
Please add those who died in a mass shooting or as a result of injuries sustained from a mass shooting.== A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence. Most mass shootings happen in the United States, which has more mass shootings than any country. The United States' Congressional Research Service acknowledges that there is not a broadly accepted defini...
On September 27,1864 in Centrailia Audrain, County, Missouri. Confederate Leader William "Bloody Bill" Anderson led his unit which included the James and Cole brothers on a raid. Some of his unit were dressed in captured Union uniforms and were about to destroy railroads. A train with both civilian and Union soldiers was stopped. The soldier were separated from the civilians and killed. Later t...
This project is inspired by several documentaries I have seen in the last four years or so. But seeing a young lady read the book today, "pushed me over the edge!" Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan.On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, an...
The 1704 Raid on Deerfield, MA occurred February 29 when French and Native American forces attacked the English frontier settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts, just before dawn, burning part of the town, killing 56 villagers, and taking 109 settlers captive. This was part of the larger Queen Anne's War.The 'lucky' ones were murdered outright, others were captured and forced to walk to Quebec i...