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Show Famous Massacres. 331 B. C. Two thousand inhabitants inhabi-tants of Tyre crucified and 8,000 butchered but-chered by the soldiers of Alexander the Great. 105 B. C. Celts kill 8,000 Roman soldiers at Auransio, on the Rhone. 102 B. C. Slaughter of Teutons near Aix, in which 200,000 barbarians were 70 A. D. Destruction of Jerusalem. Above 1,100,000 Jews put to the sword by Roman army. 115 A. D. Several thousand Greeks and Romans murdered by Jews under Andrae, leader of revolution. 1189. A. D. Massacre at Acre of 5,000 Mohammedans by order of King Richard I., in the crusades. 1260 A. O. Slaughter of the inhabitants inhab-itants of Alerpo by the Mongols. 1282 A. D. "Sicilian Vespers." About 8,000 French killed in Sicily. 1572 A. D. St. Bartholomew's Day. Massacre of 100.000 men, women and children Huguenots in France. 1592 A. D. Turks slaughter 65,000 Christians in Croatia. 1740 A. D. Settlers in Java slaughter slaugh-ter 12,000 Chinese at Batavia. 1780 A. D. "Nn nnnr" r. led by Lord George Gordon killed 450 Roman Catholics in London. 1884 A. D. Chinese murder 24,000 Christian at Kuang-Tsi, in Annam. In Cochin-China the same year 22,000 native na-tive Christians were massacred. 1895 A. D. Turks kill between 3,000 and 5,000 Armenians in Asia Minor. 1900 A. D. Boxer rebellion, having for its object the extirpation of native Christians and all foreigners. |