The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (125 page)

Florence, 200

Florida, 189

Flower Wars, 157

Forbath, Peter, 332

Force Publique, 329

Ford, Henry, xv

Foreign Legion, 282, 426, 459, 460

Fort Donaldson, Battle of, 300

Fort Mims, 182

Fort Sumter, 299

Fort William Henry, 181

Fourteenth Amendment, 300, 301

Fourth Crusade, 104

France, 37, 64, 72, 102, 104, 105, 107, 109, 127–29, 132–39, 161, 170, 181, 198–205, 215, 217, 220–21, 239, 249–51, 252, 253, 256, 258, 273–74, 282–84, 286, 294–96, 307–8, 320, 324, 327, 336, 338, 345, 346–56, 359, 361, 362, 364, 370, 387, 398, 400, 401, 402, 403, 405, 409–10,
412,
413, 416,
417,
418, 421, 422, 425–26, 439, 458–60, 465, 478, 491, 505, 530, 531, 533, 537, 539, 541, 544, 545, 546, 551, 552, 553, 592
n,
595
n

France, Anatole, 330

Francis, Duke of Anjou, 203

Francis II, King of France, 199, 200

Francis of Assisi, Saint, 125–26

Franco, Francisco, 394, 604
n

Franco-Dutch War, 338, 557, 592
n

Franco-Prussian War, 307–8, 318, 338, 345, 531, 541, 544, 551

Frank, Anne, 185, 394

Franklin, Benjamin, 108
n

Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, 103

Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, 217, 252–53, 256, 271, 536, 539

Fredericksburg, Battle of, 299

Frederick William I, King of Prussia, 256

Freedmen’s Bureau, U.S., 595
n

Free French, 410

Freemasons, 397, 407

Free Territory, 359, 364–65

Freetown, 168–69, 326

French, Percy, 317

French Indochina War, 416, 425–26, 531, 546, 552

French Revolution, 170, 259–60, 261, 270, 273, 338, 561

French Second Republic, 170

French Union, 426

Friedland, Battle of, 264

Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), 497–98

Fu, Dowager Princess, 44,
45

Fu dynasty, 44

Fur, 464

Futurism, 351

Fynn, Henry Francis, 280–81

Gaddafi, Muammar, 559

Gaiseric, King of the Vandals, 67

Galdan Tsereng, Khan of Dzungaria, 254

Galilee, 50

Gallic War, 37–40, 530, 545, 551

Gallipoli, Battle of, 350, 351, 352

Gandhi, Mohandas K., 427, 428

Gangetic Plain, 538

Gang of Four, 437

Gansu Corridor, 302–3

Garang, John, 462

García Lorca, Federico, 397–98

Gaugamela, 7

Gaul, 24, 37–40, 63, 65, 67, 68, 556

Gaza, 280

Geneva, 199

Geneva, Lake, 37

Geneva Accords, 508

Genghis Khan,
see
Chinggis Khan

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
(Weatherford), 115–16

Genoa, 105

George III, King of England, 538

Georgia, Republic of, 123, 359, 382

Georgia (U.S.), 161, 182, 376

Gerasimov, Mikhail, 153

German East Africa, 357

German Empire, 99

German principalities and states, 5, 102, 105, 192, 215–22, 218, 220, 221, 248, 251, 253, 256, 269, 307, 311
n,
557

German War (227), 556

Germany, East, 390, 411, 424, 456

Germany, Imperial, 99, 307, 327, 331, 338, 344, 345, 346–56, 357, 359, 361, 362, 366, 367, 519, 520, 541, 553, 595
n

Germany, Nazi, 23, 108, 153, 191, 312, 377, 378, 387–89, 390, 393, 397, 398, 400, 401–5, 406, 407–8, 415
n,
416,
417,
418, 420–24, 445, 532
n,
535, 540, 545, 546, 564, 565, 607
n,
608
n

see also Holocaust

Germany, West, 390, 424, 444, 481

Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution
(Morris), 25
n

Gettysburg, Battle of, 299, 537

Ghana, 83, 162

Gibbon, Edward, 70–71, 74, 77, 111

Gladstone, William, 322

Glazier, Dave, 337
n

Godfrey of Bouillon, 101

Godunov, Boris, 208–9, 211–13, 214, 538

Godunova, Irina, 208, 213

God Worshippers’ Society, 282, 288–90

Goguryeo-Sui Wars, 78–79, 531, 545, 552

Golconda, 235

Golden Horde, 147, 149–50, 153

Goliath Spring, Battle of, 131

Gondar, 323

Gongsun Yuan, 56

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 489, 507

Gordion knot, 6

Gordon, Charles, 292, 321–22, 323

Gothic War (269), 556

Goths, 60–61, 62, 70, 72, 74, 76–77, 556

Gowon, Yakubu, 478, 479–80

Goya,
411

Goya, Francisco de, xvi, 265

Grand Alliance, 249–51

Grand Army, 268–69

Grand Canal (China), 140, 228

Granicus River, 6

Grant, Ulysses S., 300

Gratian, Emperor of Rome, 61,
63

Gratianus,
63

Graziani, Rodolfo, 396

Great Britain, 38, 64, 72, 82, 83, 103–4, 110, 132–39, 161, 164, 166, 168–69, 170, 181, 183, 199, 221, 224, 229, 231–32, 242, 249, 252, 253, 256, 257, 259, 261, 263, 264–65, 267, 268, 269, 270, 273, 274, 285–86, 294–96, 313, 320, 329–30, 334, 338, 345, 346, 347, 349–56, 359, 361, 364, 387, 388
n,
400, 401, 402, 403, 405, 406, 409, 411, 415,
417,
418, 421, 422, 432, 439, 443, 481, 537, 538, 553

see also British Empire

Great Depression, 397, 398, 400

Great Lake Region (Africa),
496,
519, 523

Great Leap Forward, 433–34, 454

Great Northern War, 244, 247–48, 250, 338, 531, 543, 561

Great Purge, 385–87, 455

Great Turkish War, 237–39, 531, 546

Great Wall of China, 16, 89, 224, 225, 226, 348, 380, 570
n

Great Wrath, 248

Greco-Turkish War, 191, 251, 370–71, 531, 544, 600
n

Greece, 3–7, 24, 27, 34, 50, 98, 99–100, 104, 167, 191, 193–94, 239, 251, 267, 336, 345, 352, 356, 370–71, 390, 402, 406, 416, 418, 439, 474, 475, 531, 535, 544, 558, 600
n

Green Army, 359, 365

Greenland, 193

Greenwood (Lulin) Army, 47–48

Gregory IX, Pope, 538

Grenada, 172

Grigoriev, Nikifor, 365

Grousset, Rene, 124

Guadalajara, Battle of, 276

Guajardo, Jesus, 342, 343

Guanajuato, 275–76

Guanches, 192

Guangwu, Emperor of China, 44
n,
48–49, 54

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

Guan Yu, 54

Guardian,
388
n

Guatemala, 94, 95, 475

Guernica bombing (1937), 398

Guevara, Che, 524

Gui, Prince of, 228–29

Guinea, 394

Guinea Company, 164

Guise family, 200, 201, 202

Gulag, xv, 384–85, 387, 389, 391–92, 393, 394, 407
n,
584
n,
608
n

Gulf of Guinea, 161

Gulf of Tonkin, 298

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964), 466, 471

Gulf War, 41, 363, 508, 510–11, 514–15

Guomindang (Nationalist Chinese Party), 372–81, 402, 408, 416,
417,
418, 429, 430, 432, 444, 454, 533, 563, 607
n

Gurganj, 121

Guru Nanak Dev, 234

Guru Tegh Bahadur, 234

Gustav IV Adolf, King of Sweden, 539

Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, 217–18, 219, 220

Gypsies (Roma people), 191, 393, 408, 418, 545

Habre, Hissene, 394

Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 51, 71

Hagia Sophia, 75

Hague Convention (1899), 337

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, 395, 396, 486, 487, 488, 489

Haiphong, 426

Haiti, 161, 166, 170, 267, 273–74, 394, 531, 545, 546, 549, 550, 561

Haitian Slave Revolt, 170, 273–74, 531, 561, 545, 546, 549, 550

Hakim, Caliph al-, 96

Hakka people, 288, 303, 373
n

Halabja attack (1988), 510

Halliday, John, 434, 437–38

Hamburg bombing (1943), 415

Han dynasty, 9, 10, 44 , 45, 46, 47, 48, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 141, 142, 572
n

Han Liner, 141

Hannibal, 18–19, 33, 376

Hannibal: A History of the Art of War among the Carthaginians and Romans
(Dodge), 570
n

Hanoi, 425, 465, 469, 473

Hanover, 247

Hapsburg dynasty, 215, 216–17, 218, 220, 221, 249–51, 344, 346

Harfleur, Battle of, 135

Hariharpara, 482

Harris, P. M. G., 572
n

Harrison, George, 488

Hasdrubal, 19

Hattin, Battle of, 102

Hausa-Fulani, 478

Havana, 64, 335

Hearst, William Randolph, 331

Heart of Darkness
(Conrad), 325, 329

Hebrews, 192–93

Hegira, 321

Heidelburg, 217

He Jin, 55

Helen, 535

Hemingway, Ernest, 371, 399

Henan Province, 434

Henna, 27

Henry I, Duke of Guise, 202, 203–4

Henry II, King of France, 199, 203

Henry III, King of France, 203–4

Henry IV, King of France, 201, 202–5

Henry V, King of England, 132, 135–36

Henry V
(Shakespeare), 132

Henry VI, King of England, 136, 137

Herat, 122, 148–49, 506

Hercules, 24

Herero, 192

Herod, xiii

Herodotus, 4
n

Heruli, 59, 68

Herzegovina, 110, 345, 346

Hicks, William (Hicks Pasha), 321

Hidalgo, Miguel, 275

Hippolytus, 24

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 378, 417

Hiroshima bombing (1945), xiv, 337–38, 378, 416, 419, 532
n,
607
n,
608
n

Hispaniola, 173, 175–76

Historia Augusta,
556

Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century, xiii

Hitler, Adolf, xiii, 42, 108
n,
113, 116, 271, 350–51, 378, 387, 388, 393, 394, 400, 401–2, 403, 406, 410, 411, 415
n,
421, 422, 434, 533, 535, 537, 538, 539, 542, 556, 560, 561, 563, 565

Hitler Youth, 401

Hiwis (Hilfswillige) (volunteers), 389

Ho Chi Minh, 425–26, 465

Ho Chi Minh Trail, 467, 472

Hochschild, Adam, 332

Hohenzollern dynasty, 344

Holocaust, xiii, xiv, xv, 23, 42, 108, 116, 125, 185, 186, 190, 191, 312, 365, 377, 393, 394, 400, 407–8, 414, 420, 495, 532
n,
561

Holodomor, 190