The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (127 page)

see also specific countries

Latin language, 60, 138

Latvia, 210, 359, 362, 387, 402

La Violencia, 559

Lawrence, T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia), 355

League of Augsburg, 557

League of Nations, 395, 519–20

Lebanon, 107, 110, 284, 358, 512

Leclerc, Charles, 274

Lederman, Marty, 337
n

Le dynasty, 155

Lee, Robert E., 299, 300, 542

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (LSRs), 366, 367

Leipzig, Battle of, 269

Le Loi, King of Dai Viet, 155

Lenin, V. I., 354, 360–61, 366, 367, 368, 383, 384

Leningrad, 386, 404–5, 419, 537

see also Saint Petersburg

Leningrad, Siege of, 404–5, 419, 537

Leo I (the Great), Pope, 67

Leonard, William, 572
n

Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, 237

Leopold II, King of Belgium, 325, 326–33, 393, 539

Leopold’s Ghost
(Hochschild), 332

Lepanto, Battle of, 86

Levant, 98–106, 259

Levashevo, 386

Levy, Jack, 557

Lewis, Bernard, 124

Lewis and Clark “Corps of Discovery” expedition, 376

Lhasa, 434

Liao River, 78, 79

Liberal Party, 313, 322

Liberia, 169, 327, 503, 560

Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Committee, 560

Libreville, 326

Libya, 83, 402, 484, 485, 512, 559

Ligny, Battle of, 269

Lin, Prince, 91

Lin Biao, 435, 436

Lincoln, Abraham, 107, 299

Ling, Emperor of China, 54, 55

Lin Zexu, 286

Li Po, 91–92

Lisbon, 102

Li Si, 15, 17

Lithuania, 207, 210, 359, 362, 387, 402

Little Bighorn, Battle of, 182, 337

Little Ice Age, 230

Little Turtle, 182

Liu Bei, Emperor of China, 53, 54, 57

Liu dynasty, 47

Liu Kang,
45

Liu Penzi, Emperor of China, 47, 48, 49

Liu Shaoqi, 431, 435

Liu Xian,
45

Liu Xiao,
45

Liu Xing,
45

Liu Xiu, Emperor of China (Emperor Guangwu), 44
n,
48–49, 54

Liu Xuan, Emperor of China, 47–48

Liu Xun,
45

Liu Yan, 47–48

Live Aid concert (1985), 488

Liverpool, 330

Livingstone, David, 325

Livingstone Falls, 327, 328

Li Zicheng, 223–25, 227–28

Llewelyn-Davies, George, 351

Locke, John, 168

Loewen, James, 185

Loire River, 134, 136–37, 203, 260, 308

London, 65, 146, 230

London Plague (1665), 230

Long March, 375–76

Lon Nol, 471

Lopez, Robert S., 139

Los Alamos laboratory, 414

Louis VIII, King of France, 129

Louis IX, King of France (Saint Louis), 105, 131

Louis XIV, King of France, 249–51, 271, 557

Louis XVI, King of France, 259–60

Louisiana, 189

Louis-Philippe, King of France, 282

Louvain, 347

Louverture, Toussaint, 274

Low Countries, 251

Lowenhaupt (Swedish general), 248

Loyang, 11

Lu Buwei, 11

Lucullus, Lucius Licinius, 35–36

Lukasa Ceasefire Agreement (1999), 526

Lu kingdom, 10

Lulin (Greenwood) Army, 47–48

Lumumba, Patrice, 524

Lunda, 161

Luo Guanzhong, 54

Luoyang, 55, 90

Lupus, Publius Rutilius, 32

Lusitania
sinking (1915), 354

Luther, Martin, 198, 561

Lutheranism, 199, 215–16

Lutzen, Battle of, 218

Luwero Triangle, 501–2

Lying About History: History, Holocaust , and the David Irving Trial
(Evans), 420
n

Lynch, Eliza, 305

Ma’arra, 101

MacArthur, Douglas, 413, 442, 444

MacDermott, G. H., 317–18

Macedonia, 6, 316

Machares, 35

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 200

Machu Picchu, 180

Madeira Islands, 161

Madero, Francisco, 339, 340

Madras, 311–12

Madrid, 65, 398

Maenchen-Helfen, Otto, 70
n

Magdeburg, Sack of, 217–18, 219

Mahdi Revolt, 108, 292, 320–24, 327, 529, 544, 549, 550

Mahdiyah, 320

Ma Hualong, 302–3

Mai-Mai, 523, 527–28

Maine
sinking (1898), 335

Mainz, 63, 99

Maitreya, the Future Buddha, 141

Makhno, Nestor, 364, 365

Malacca Strait, 270

Malawi, 280, 394

Malay Peninsula, 409, 490, 491

Malaysia, 491

Mali, 83

Malinche, 177

Malraux, André, 398–99

Mamelukes, 86, 131, 263

Mamertines, 13

Mammoth Book of the History of Murder
(Wilson), 137
n

Mampoko, 332

Man, John, 123

Manassas, Battle of, 299

Manchukuo, 372, 375

Manchuria, 78, 114, 225, 226–30, 363, 374, 375, 378, 379, 409,
412,
439, 533

Manchus, 225–30, 285, 288, 289, 298, 372

Mandarin Chinese language, 43
n,
44,
288

Mandate of Heaven, 47

Mani, 113

Manichaeans, 109, 112, 113–14

Manila, 65, 292, 413

Manucci, Niccolao, 589
n

Manzkert, Battle of, 98

Mao: The Unknown Story
(Chang and Halliday), 437–38

Maori, 193

Mao Zedong, 43
n,
372, 373, 374, 375, 378, 393, 429–38, 440, 443, 456, 477, 481, 483, 493, 502, 529, 538, 542, 547, 551, 559, 560–61, 563

Mao Zetan, 43
n

Marathon, Battle of, 3

Marco Polo Bridge, 376

Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 26, 69, 556

Marengo, Battle of, 265

Margaret of Valois, Queen of France, 201

Margarita Island, 180

Margolin, Jean-Louise, 437

Maria I, Queen of Portugal, 538

Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 252–53, 257, 260, 537

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 260, 264

Marius, Gaius, 32

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 251

Marlowe, Christopher, 146

Marne River, 347

Marozzi, Justin, 150
n

Mars, 533

Marseilles, 5, 105

Marsi, 32

Martí, José, 334

Marx, Karl, xv, 153, 291–92

Mary, Queen of Scots, 199, 200

Maryland, 161

Mary Tudor, 199

Masada, Siege of, 51

Masalit, 464

Masaryk, Jan, 390

Massachusetts, 184, 185

Massacre of the Innocents, xiii

Mathura, 234

Mauritania, 84

Maxim machine guns, 324

Maya, 94–97, 530, 538, 544, 552

May Fourth Movement, 373

Mboye, 332

McCall, George, 281

McCarthy, Justin, 558, 595
n
–96
n

McEvedy, Colin, 123, 578
n

Mecca, 323

Medici, Lorenzo de, 200

Mediterranean Sea, 13, 18, 74, 85–86, 263, 352

Mehmed IV, Sultan, 238

Meisner, Maurice, 434

Melos, 193–94

Mengistu Haile Mariam, 486–89, 530, 547

Mensheviks, 360, 369

Merv, 120, 122, 124

Meso-America, 181

Mesopotamia, 7, 35, 352, 556

Messina, 13

Metacom, 181

Metaurus River, 19

Metema, 323

Metz, 67, 308

Mexican Revolution, xvii, 339–43, 356, 530, 544, 552

Mexican War of Independence, 275–76, 531, 546, 552

Mexico, xvii, 22, 65, 94, 156–60, 177–78, 275–76, 339–43, 356, 530, 531, 544, 546, 552

Mexico City, 65, 275, 341

Mfecane, 280

Mhlatuze River, Battle of, 278–79

Michael III, Byzantine Emperor, 111

Michelin, 328

Middle Ages, xvi, 81, 82, 86, 98–106, 110, 125, 133, 136, 146, 148, 198

Middle East, 6, 42, 50, 80–87, 88, 98–106, 153, 161, 282, 351, 529, 547, 549, 550, 559

Middle Passage, 164–65

Midianites, 192–93

Midway Atoll, 405–6, 412

Milan, 62, 76, 251, 262

Miletus, 3

Miliukov, Pavel N., 590
n

Miller, Glenn, 3511
n

Min Chit Swa, 196

Minerve, 128–29

Ming dynasty, 54, 141, 142,
143,
154–55, 223–30, 435, 533, 544, 550, 561, 581
n

Ming-Han War, 142

Ming Shi,
229

Minie balls, 295

Minnesota, 182

Mississippi, 189

Mississippi River, 182, 185, 300

Mithridates, King of Pontus, 34–36, 571
n

Mniszech, Marina, 209, 210, 212, 537

Mobutu Sese Seko, 499, 524–25

Mogadishu, 488, 517, 518

Mohacs, Battle of, 237, 238

Moldavia, 294, 316

Mollwitz, Battle of, 252

Molodi, Battle of, 206

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 421

Mongke Khan, 130, 131

Mongolia, 115, 116, 373, 380, 454, 456

Mongols, 71, 105, 115–26, 130–31, 140–42, 146–53, 206, 225, 533, 538, 553

Mongols, The
(Morgan), 123

Monophysites, 111

Monrovia, 169

Mons, Willem, 246

Montana, 182

Monte de las Cruces, Battle of, 276

Montereau, 136

Montesinos, Antonio de, 176

Montesquieu, 168

Montezuma II, Emperor of the Aztecs, 177–78

Montfort, Simon de, 127, 128, 129

Moors, 102

Morel, Edmund, 330, 331

Morelos, 339, 340, 341

Morelos y Pavón, José María, 276

Morgan, David, 123, 124

Morgantia, 29

Morocco, 284, 459

Morris, Desmond, 25
n

Moscow, 65, 148, 206, 208–12, 268, 360–61, 403–4, 425, 540, 587
n

Moscow River, 206

Moseley, Henry, 351

Moses, 192–93

Mount Athos, 4

Mountbatten, Louis, 428

Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), 523, 526

Mozambique, 280, 455, 475

Mozambique Civil War, 497–98, 499, 503, 530, 545

Mozambique Resistance Movement (Renamo), 497–98