The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1864-06-22
MaSSacreS.


are the most revolting, and mans inhumanity
tomah isstfilzingly illustrated by the records of
these barbarians.s Alexander enraged at
being kept so long at the siege of Tyre, that on
capturing it he massacred ten thousand Tyrians.
One of the most frightful massacres on record is
that by the Roman General Marius who slaugh
tered nearly two hundred thousand of the leu
tones and Ambrones Mithridates, King of
Pontus, SS B. c., ordered the massacre of the
Romans throughout ASIA sparing neither women
nor children. At the destruction of Jerusalem,
| a million of Jews said to have been put to
the sword In the year A. D. lis, the Jews, I'M
der command of one Adrac, put to death 10, 900
Greeks and Romans near Cyrenc. The massa-
of 800 600 of the inhabitants of Selucia in A.
D. 165, by Roman General named Cassius,
under the orders of the Emperor Aurelius, pre-
sent details of the most revolving character. By
order of the Emperor Theodosis, A. d. 800, 1000
persons who had been invited to the Circus at
Thessalonlca, were massacred. Andronicus
massacred the Latins at Constantinople, A. D.,
1884. In hostile massacre of the Albgenses and
Waldenses commenced The dreadful massacre
of ST. Bartholomew commenced on the night of
the festival of st. Bartholomew, August oath,
1872. Seventy thousand Hugenots or French
Protestants were murdered throughout the king
! dom by the secret orders of Charles TX. Above
ton, persisted in Paris alone. In 1892, $500 of
the Christians of Croatia were massacred by the
Turks Ismail, in Bessarabia after long siege
by the Russians, who lost 10000 men before the
place, was taken by storm, December 22d, 1870,
when the Russian General Suwarrow put the en-
tire Turkish garrison, numbering thirty thou
sand to the sword. The massacres in st. Do
mingo, where Dessalines made proclamation for
the massacre of the whites, are familiar to all.
Among the brutal massacres of more recent
times may be mentioned the massacre of the
French in Madrid in 1905 and that of the Name
lukes in the Citadel of Cairo, March LIST, 1911,
and of the Protestants at Nismes, in May 1916.
The massacre and slaughter of the Greeks by the
Turks at Scio is the most horrible of any record
ed in modern history. 1t commenced April o.
1922 and lasted ten days, 40, 900 perishing as vic
TINS of fire and sword. A body of 1000 Greeks
induced to surrender under promise of an am
nesty, were butchered In 1850, October 16 large
numbers of Christians were massacred by the
Turks at Aleppo. In 1860 the Mohammedans
again commenced the massacre of Christians at
Damascus and their outrages continued several
months, till, by the interference of England and
France they were suppressed. The most re-
marks lie massacres recorded in English history,
are of three hundred English mobiles by Hengst
on Salisbury Plain; of l 200 monks of Bangor
bv Ethelfrid; of the Danes in the southern coun-
ties of England in 1902 by Ethelred; of Protest
ans in Ireland in O'Neils rebellion; before it
was suppressed, according to Sir VIM. Temple,
$50 900 Protestants were massacred; OF the Nc
Donalds of Glencoe; of Europeans at Meerut,
Delhi &C.. by mutineers of the native army OF
India All are familiar with the massacres per-
petrated by the American Indians during our
own history The latest of the brutal and inhu-
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