Parker could weep -- and he wept astonishingly often and on the slightest provocation -- but the psychology of those tears was entirely compatible with a remorseless readiness to massacre his opponents.

Theodosius was threatened with excommunication by Ambrose for the massacre of 7, 000 persons at Thessalonica in 390, after the murder of the Roman governor there by rioters.

His arrival was celebrated by a massacre of 80, 000 Latins in Constantinople, especially the Venetian merchants, which he made no attempt to stop.

Andronikos Komnenos ' arrival was soon followed by a massacre of the Latin inhabitants of the city, who virtually controlled the economy of the city, with the massacre resulting in the deaths of 80, 000 " Latins ", i. e. Westerners.

The city of Assur was still occupied by Assyrians during the Islamic period until the 14th century when Tamurlane conducted a massacre of indigenous Assyrian Christians.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

For instance, Tomás Mac Curtain, the Mayor of Cork, was assassinated in March 1920 by local RIC men and the massacre of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday was also carried out by the RIC although a small detachment of Auxiliaries were also present.

Only a little over 2 weeks later, the Columbine High School massacre postponed a home game with the Montreal Expos ( it was made up as part of a doubleheader in August ).

Cuitláhuac was made tlatoani of Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest of Mexico ; After Pedro de Alvarado had ordered the massacre in the Main Temple, the Aztecs were very upset and started to fight and put a siege to the Spaniards.

After the success of his siege of Carcassonne, which followed the massacre at Béziers, Simon de Montfort was designated as leader of the Crusader army.

But in spite of the wholesale massacre of Cathars during the war, Catharism was not yet extinguished.

The Ma ' alot massacre of 1974, an attack on Israeli school in which 27 people were killed, was the group's largest attack.

The largest massacre was at Antioch, where 5, 000 Druze religious leaders were killed, followed by that of Aleppo.

Yaqub Khan, suspected of complicity in the massacre of Cavagnari and his staff, was obliged to abdicate.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

Since he was Eleanor's vassal, many believed that it was she who had been ultimately responsible for the change in plan, and thus the massacre.

Despite ordering a cease fire, which prevented a mutual massacre, Governor Marquis Bernard de Launay was beaten, stabbed and decapitated ; his head was placed on a pike and paraded about the city.

The relentless work of Albornoz ushered in a decade of warfare and atrocity culminating in the massacre of Cesena, a town faithful to the Papal cause who's entire population was executed by the Papal forces while paving the way of Urban V to Rome ( 1367 ).

Public concern with the goth subculture reached a high point in the fallout of the Columbine High School massacre that was carried out by two students, incorrectly associated with the goth subculture.

Further instability ensued, with several massacres, including the St Jean Bosco massacre in which the church of Jean-Bertrand Aristide was attacked and burned down.

In the history of the European colonization of North America, the term " Indian massacre " was often used to describe either mass killings of Europeans by indigenous people of the North American continent ( Indians ) or mass killings of indigenous people by the Europeans and by Americans of European origin.

* 1885 – Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.

" Queensland ’ s Colonial Secretary A. H. Palmer wrote in 1884 " the nature of the blacks was so treacherous that they were only guided by fear – in fact it was only possible to rule … the Australian Aboriginal … by brute force " The most recent massacre of Aborigines was at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928.

The Duke of Savoy sent an army and on April 24, at 4 a. m., the signal was given for a general massacre so brutal, that it aroused indignation throughout Europe.

The massacre was so brutal it aroused indignation throughout Europe.

Gentillet held, quite wrongly according to Sydney Anglo, that Machiavelli's " books held most dear and precious by our Italian and Italionized courtiers " ( in the words of his first English translation ), and so ( in Anglo's paraphrase ) " at the root of France's present degradation, which has culminated not only in the St Bartholemew massacre but the glee of its perverted admirers ".

In fact there is little trace of Machiavelli in French writings before the massacre, and not very much after, until Gentillet's own book, but this concept was seized upon by many contemporaries, and played a crucial part in setting the long-lasting popular concept of Machiavellianism that so infuriates scholars of his actual thought.

Earlier Huguenot rage at Nimes ( in 1567 ) led to ... the massacre of a hundred or so Catholics, mostly priests and prominent laymen, at the hands of their Protestant neighbours.

Foodstores and livestock were destroyed so that anyone surviving the initial massacre would soon succumb to starvation over the winter.

As a postmodern, metafictional novel, the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five is an author's preface about how he came to write Slaughterhouse-Five, apologizing, because the novel is " so short and jumbled and jangled ," because " there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

After the Boers retrieved the cattle back, Dingane invited Retief to his residence at Umgungundlovu to finalise the treaty, having either planned the massacre in advance, or deciding to do so after Retief and his men arrived.

The People felt that a victory that came because of the massacre of so many citizens was exceptionally distasteful.

He did so on June 3, 1098, and a massacre of the Muslim inhabitants followed.

Efforts to locate ' Wiriyamu ' or any massacre of 400 have so far proved fruitless.

Many refused to do so, resulting in the massacre of eighteen inhabitants as a reprisal, and the almost complete destruction of the village by fire.

* B. G. Horniman observed: " No event within living memory, probably, has made so deep and painful impression on the mind of the public in this country ( England ) as what came to be known as the Amritsar massacre.

On December 28, 1928 ( so on his 25th birthday and six weeks before The Saint Valentine's Day massacre ) the always-immaculate Hines opened at Chicago's Grand Terrace Cafe leading his own big band, the pinnacle of jazz ambition at the time.

* Livy states that so terrible was the massacre at Lake Trasimene, that neither army was aware of the occurrence of an earthquake, which at the very moment of the battle " overthrew large portions of many of the cities of Italy, turned rivers, and levelled mountains with an awful crash.

The American troops were so horrified by conditions at the camp that a few killed some of the camp guards after they had surrendered in what is called the Dachau massacre.

In the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre, Hellcat refused to allow this, so the band titled their album Mediocre Generica in protest, as a veiled reference to what they viewed as the mediocrity of the bands on Hellcat's label.

She did not directly answer as she had no clue what she was even talking about, so instead she responded that what was more important was that the legislation would ban large capacity " clips " ( sic ) of the type used in the Virginia Tech massacre and that the class of guns chosen prohibited by the law were those used by gangs and killers of police officers.

In areas near the front, the Einsatzgruppen were under Army command, so when Colonel Groscurth ordered the planned massacre to be put on hold, the local Einsatzkommando leader had no choice, but to comply.

After staging the Babi Yar massacre in September 1941, Einsatzgruppe C reported to Berlin: " Although 75, 000 Jews have been liquidated in this manner so far, today it is already clear that even with such tactics a final solution of the Jewish problem will not be possible.

Reports of the massacre are sketchy because the official cover-up for the incident was so effective.

By 1555, Calvinists were firmly in place on the Genevan town council, so the Libertines, led by Perrin, responded with an " attempted coup against the government and called for the massacre of the French ...