The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (123 page)

Bithynia, 34, 35

Bitlis, 353

Black Army, 364–65

Black Book of Communism,
437

Black Death, 139, 185, 230, 557

Blackfeet Indians, 172, 182

Black Sea, 35, 151, 244, 294–95, 316, 352, 363, 600
n

Blancos (Whites), 304

Blenheim, Battle of, 251

Bletchley Park, 414

Blood, Archer, 482–83

Blue Nile River, 323

Boccioni, Umberto, 351

Boers, xv, 119
n,
280–81, 337

Boer War, xv, 119
n,
337

Bohemia, 215, 216–17, 363

Bohemond, Prince of Taranto, 100–101

Bolongo, 332

Bolshevik Revolution, 212, 354, 357, 359
n,
360–61, 367
n

Bolsheviks, 110, 212, 354, 357, 359, 360–61, 362, 363, 365, 366–68, 403, 535

Bombay, 311, 314

Bonampak, 96

Bonaparte, Josephine, 262, 264

Boniface, 65–66

Borah, Woodrow, 160

Boris, Tsar of Russia, 213

Boris Godunov
(Mussorgsky), 213

Boris Godunov
(Pushkin), 213

Borisova, Yevgenia, 605
n

Borneo, 326

Bosnia, 107, 110, 190
n,
316, 345, 346

Bosnia-Herzegovina, 110, 345, 346

Botswana, 309, 504
n

Bourbon dynasty, 200, 204, 205, 251, 265, 275, 276

Boy Scouts, 401

Bram, 129

Brandenburg, 215, 216, 247, 256

Brazil, 161, 164, 171, 183, 300, 304, 305

Breitenfeld, Battle of, 218

Breslau, 423

Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of, 361, 366

Brezhnev, Leonid, 505, 506

Britain, 38, 64

Britain, Battle of, 406

British Commonwealth, 402

British East India Company, 327–28

British Empire, xv, 119
n,
309–15, 317, 320–24, 326, 327–28, 336, 337, 357, 370, 377–78, 390, 408, 427–28, 461–62, 478, 484, 558

see also Great Britain

British Somaliland, 487

British Strategy and Politics during the Phony War
(Smart), 403
n

“Brother Philaret” (Fedor Romanov), 211–12

Brown, John, 107

Browning, Michael, 303
n

Brown Shirts, 401

Bruges, 133

Brunswick, 259

Brussels, 64

Buchanan, Patrick, 421

Buchenwald concentration camp, 312

Budapest, 238

Buddhism, 114, 141, 434–35, 466, 469, 494

Buenos Aires, 64

Bugeaud, Thomas-Robert, 283

Bukhara, 88, 120, 146

Bukharin, Nikolay, 383, 386

Bukka Raya I, Emperor of Vijayanagar, 144–45

Bulgaria, 316, 317, 318–19, 345, 356, 390, 408, 454, 456

Bulge, Battle of the, 410, 560

Bulwer-Lytton, Robert, 311, 538

Burgundy, 64, 201, 220, 249

Burma, 195–97, 228–29, 297, 310, 315, 337, 380, 408, 409, 419, 448, 530, 543, 458

Burma Road, 377

Burma-Siam Wars, 195–97, 530, 543

Burundi, 357, 503, 519–20, 523, 560

Bush, George H. W., 514

Bush, George W., 421, 452, 510

Butovo, 386

Byelorussia, 361, 366, 370, 422

Bykivnia, 386

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 351
n

Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire, 59, 61, 62, 65, 68, 70, 74–77, 98, 100, 104, 110–11, 151

Cadbury, William, 330

Caesar, Julius, xvii, 23, 37–40, 60, 263–64, 271,536

Caesar, Lucius Julius, 32

Caesarea, 50

Cairo, 64, 105, 320–21

Cajamarca, 179

Calais, 133

Calcutta, 427, 428

California, 182, 189

Caligula, Emperor of Rome, xv, 25, 60

Calleja, Felix, 275–76

Calvin, John, 199

Cambodia, 188, 425, 426, 454, 455, 456, 465, 467, 471–72, 473, 475, 492–95, 533

Cambodian Civil War, 454, 473, 475

Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire, The,
139

Cambridge History of China, The,
142

Cambridge Modern History, The,
557

Cameroon, 479

Canaan, 168, 192

Canada, 270, 362, 439

Canary Islands, 161, 192

Cancuen, 95

Cannae, Battle of, 18–19, 41

Canovas del Castillo, Antonio, 335

Canton (Guangzhou) Province, 286, 291, 373–74

Cao Cao, 53, 54, 55, 56

Cao Pi, Emperor of China, 57

Cape Pachynus, 14

Cape Town, 270, 281

Cape Verde, 161

Cappadocia, 34

Capua, 29

Carcassonne, 128

Caribbean islands, 164–66, 175–76, 181, 185, 259, 264, 273

Carolinas, 161, 189

Caroline War, 134–35

Carr, Caleb, 293

Carranza, Venustiano, 339, 340, 341, 343

Carter, Jimmy, 506

Carthage, 13–14, 18–19, 27, 34, 66, 67, 75, 192, 570
n

Casement, Roger, 330, 331, 332, 354–55

Caspian Sea, 244

Cassandra, 193

Cassinga, 500

Cassius, Avidius, 556

Castro, Fidel, xiv

Catalaunian Plains, Battle of the, 67

Catherine, Queen of England, 136

Catherine I, Empress of Russia, 245, 246

Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia, 258

Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, 198, 200, 201, 202, 204, 537, 538

Catholic League, 198, 203, 204

Cato, Marcus Porcius, 40

Caucasus Mountains, 86, 353, 362, 389, 404, 557–58

Cave of Arrows, 51–52

Cave of Horrors, 51–52

Cave of Letters, 51–52

Cave of Scrolls, 51–52

Celaya, Battle of, 341

Central America, 176, 585
n

Central Asia, 254–55

Central Highlands, 473

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 466, 469, 476

Central Powers, 346
n,
352

Cen Yuying, 298

Chad, 394, 523

Chagatai Khan, 147–48, 149

Chalcedon, 35

Chalcedonians, 111

Cham, 493

Champlain, Samuel de, 185

Chancellorsville, Battle of, 299

Chang, Jung, 434, 437–38

Chang’an (Xian), 48–49, 55, 89, 90, 91, 302

Changchun, 379

Changping, Battle of, 11

Changsha, 289

“Charge of the Light Brigade, The” (Tennyson), 294

Charles II, King of Spain, 249–50

Charles V, King of France, 134, 135

Charles VI, Emperor of Austria, 251, 252

Charles VI (the Mad), King of France, 135, 136

Charles VII, King of France, 137

Charles IX, King of France, 200, 201, 202–3

Charles X, King of France, 282

Charles XII, King of Sweden, 247–48

Chatham Island, 193

Chattanooga, Battle of, 300

Chechens, 191, 370, 389

Cheju Island, 440

Cheka, 366–67, 368, 384
n

Chelmno concentration camp, 408

Cheng, Emperor of China, 44,
45

Chengchang, Battle of, 47

Chengdu, 228

Chennai, 311

Chen Youliang, Emperor of China, 141, 142

Chiang Kai-shek, 372, 373–74, 375, 376, 378, 380, 402, 429, 443, 533, 563

Chichen Itza, 96

Chihuahua, 339

Children’s Crusade, 105

Childs, John, 557

Chile, 193, 394

China, Imperial, 8–12, 15–17, 42–49,
45,
53–58, 70, 78–79, 88–93, 108, 109, 112, 113–14, 119–20, 122, 123, 124, 140–42,
143,
152–55, 159, 186, 191, 223–30, 254–55, 285–93,
287,
302–3, 344, 364, 400, 409, 418, 530, 544, 546, 550–51, 552, 553, 559, 560, 563, 564, 569
n,
570
n,
572
n,
578
n,
581
n,
593
n
–94
n

China, Nationalist, 372–81, 402, 408, 416,
417,
418, 429, 430, 432, 444, 454, 533, 563, 607
n

China, People’s Republic of, 380, 390, 402, 416,
417,
426, 429–38, 439, 440, 442, 443–44, 447,
450–51,
454, 455, 467, 470, 472, 475, 477, 481, 491, 493, 533, 538, 551, 559, 560, 563, 564, 607
n,
610
n

Chinese Civil War, xvii, 372–81, 402, 416, 429, 441, 454, 529, 533, 544, 545, 547, 551

Chinese language, 43
n,
44,
154–55, 288

Chinggisids, 147

Chinggis Khan (Temujin), 115–26, 140, 147, 148–49, 153, 225, 271, 527, 529, 533, 537, 538, 546, 551, 556

Chmielnicki, Bogdan, 111

Choeung Ek, 493

Cholula, 177

Chongqing, 377, 402

Chongzhen, Emperor of China, 224–25

Chosin Reservoir, 443

Christian IV, King of Denmark, 217

Christian VII, King of Denmark, 539

Chu Mien, 113, 114

Chunchucmil, 95–96

Churchill, Winston S., 258, 354, 356, 370
n,
409, 423

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 98

Chu state, 8, 10

Cicero, 25

Ciudad Juarez, 339

Civil War, U.S., 107, 119
n,
171, 186, 299–301, 414, 531, 544, 549, 595
n

Cixi, Dowager Empress, 372

Claudius, Emperor of Rome, 26

Claudius II, Emperor of Rome, 556

Cleon, 28

Cleopatra, 60

Clinton, Bill, 452, 500, 519
n

Cobbing hypothesis, 280–81

Cold War, 363, 390–91, 392, 456, 462, 474–75, 505, 508

Coligny, Gaspard de, 200, 201–2

Cologne, 99

Colombia, 439, 559

Colorado, 182

Colorados (Reds), 304

Colosseum, 23–26

Columbus, Christopher, 172, 173, 174, 175, 562

Commodus, Emperor of Rome, 25, 71

Communist China,
see
China, People’s Republic of

Comnor, Battle of, 556

Concert for Bangladesh, 488

Conde, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of, 200

Confederate States, 299–301

Confucius, 46, 113

Congo, 82, 499, 503, 523–28, 529, 539, 544, 546, 547, 620
n

Congo, Democratic Republic of, 523, 524–25

Congo Crisis, 524–25, 620
n

Congo Free State, 320, 325–33, 355, 393, 519, 529, 546, 547, 597
n

Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), 523, 525, 526

Congo Major, 523, 524

Congo Reform Association, 330

Congo River, 82, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329

Congress, U.S., 331, 437, 466, 471, 473