Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owing in large part to the 1st Air Cav's helicoptered artillery, rocket-firing choppers and tactical air support. Giap's men finally broke and ran, and the 1st Air Cav relentlessly pursued them in a campaign culminating in the battle of la Drang Valley, where the slaughter of 2,262 of his men was a hideous revelation to Giap of the new kind of war and enemy that he faced...
...Crusaders who stormed Jerusalem on July 15, 1099, slaughtered the Turkish garrison and then ran amuck, firing mosques and synagogues, battering down doors, killing, killing, killing. Even as the slaughter of 40,000 people was still going on, the leaders of the Crusade, the barons of France, Germany and Sicily, humbly went "barefoot, with sighs and tears, through the holy places where Jesus Christ had lived in the flesh," devoutly kissing the "places where his feet had trod." In the end, wrote Chronicler William of Tyre, "the city offered a spectacle of such a slaughter that the victors themselves could...
...indignation. In the catalogue of Hitler's crimes, Evian-les-Bains amounted to little more than a misdemeanor. Hitler went on to destroy German Jewry, and Habe sensibly does not suggest that the successful sale and salvation of 40,000 Jews in 1938 would have prevented that wholesale slaughter. As Habe admits, Hitler probably never intended to find a market at Evian-les-Bains; his purpose may have been to show, by the free world's refusal to enter into such a negotiation, that anti-Semitism is merely a matter of degree...
Obote seemed satisfied with the slaughter. With flames from King Freddy's demolished palace still visible from downtown Kampala, he appeared before Parliament to make an official announcement. "There is nothing to regret," said Obote. "The oneness of Uganda must be assured...
...convicted of first-degree murder; although the prosecution demanded the death penalty, the jury showed mercy and she was given a life sentence. Paula was found guilty of second-degree murder, which in Indiana carries a mandatory life term. John Baniszewski, Hubbard and Hobbs were convicted of man slaughter, and will each serve from two to 21 years in prison. Still awaiting trial is Stephanie, who, alone of her cruel clan, told the prosecution all she knew about Sylvia's slow death...