The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (130 page)

Seven Days Battle, 299

Seventh Army, Chinese, 380

Seventh Cavalry, U.S., 182

Seventh Crusade, 101

Seven Years War, 256–58, 310, 338, 530, 533, 537, 541, 543, 551, 591
n

Severa, Marina,
63

Seville, 398

Shaanxi, 302

Shah Jahan, 233

Shaka Zulu, 271, 277–81, 530, 546, 593
n

Shakespeare, William, xvi
n,
132, 135, 136, 146

Shan, 195, 197

Shanawdithit, 189

Shang, Lord, 10

Shang dynasty, 159

Shanghai, 292, 374, 376–77, 378, 425

Shanhaiguan, 227–28, 380

Shao, Emperor of China, 55

Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, 150

Shatt al-Arab River, 512

Shawans, 396

Shenyang (Mukden), 119, 375, 379, 380

Sherman, William T., 376

Shermer, Michael, 420
n

Shevardnadze, Eduard, 507–8

Shia Muslims, 357, 509, 510

Shi Dakai, 291, 292

Shiloh, Battle of, 300

Shimabara Rebellion, 110

Shiraz, 149

Shi Siming, 91

Shiva, 234

Shivaji, 235

Shiz, 556

shoguns, 229

Shuisky, Andrei, 207

Shuisky, Vasily, 208, 209, 210–11, 214

Shu kingdom, 10, 53, 57

Shultz, George, 507–8

Shun dynasty, 224

Siad Barre, Mohamed, 487, 488, 517

Siam, 195–97, 344, 530, 543

Siberia, 150, 244, 359, 363, 364, 378, 382, 389

Sichuan, 55, 57, 291, 377

Sicily, 5, 13–14, 27–29, 30, 259

Sierra Leone, 168–69

Sihanouk, Norodom, 471, 494

Silesia, 220, 252–53, 257, 422

Silk Road, 302

silver, 172, 179, 180, 245, 285, 297

Sima Yi, Emperor of China, 56, 57–58

Singapore, 405

Singh, Jai, 235

Sino-Dzungar War, 254–55, 303, 531, 545, 550

Sino-Japanese War, 372, 376–79, 381, 400, 402
n,
537

Sinope, 34, 294

Sivas, 147, 151

Sixth Army, German, 389, 605
n

Sixth Crusade, 105

Sixtieth Army, Chinese, 380

Skraelings, 193

Slaughterhouse-Five
(Vonnegut), 415
n

Slave Coast, 478

Slave Wars, Roman, 27–31, 530, 546, 549, 550

Slavs, 72, 77, 316, 346, 393, 403

Sluys, 133

Smart, Nick, 403
n

Smirnov, P. P., 590
n

Smith, Adam, 310

Smithsonian Institution, 331

Smolensk, 388, 403

Smyrna, 152, 370–71

Sobibor concentration camp, 408

Socialist Revolutionary Party, 360, 366

Social War (War of the Allies), 32–33, 531, 547

Sofala, 81

Sogdian Desert, 88

Solano Lopez, Francisco, 272, 304–6

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 385, 394

Somalia, 81, 486, 487, 503

Somali Abo Liberation Front, 486

Somali Civil War, 517–18, 531, 544

Somaliland, 395, 487, 517

Somerset, James, 170

Somme, Battle of the, 350

Somnath Temple, 234

Song dynasty, 113, 114, 142

Song of Everlasting Sorrow
(Bai Juyi), 93

“Song of War-Chariots, A” (Tu Fu), 92

Song Ve River, 468–69

Soong family, 373
n

Sophia (half-sister of Peter I), 243

Sorokin, Pitirim, 138

Soshangane, 280

South, U.S., 299–301, 337

South Africa, 119
n,
277, 279, 280–81, 326, 337, 497, 499–500, 512, 527

South America, 172–81, 304

Southeast Asia, 195–97, 229, 364, 408–9,
412,
557

Southern Baptist Convention, 170

South Korea, 390–91, 430, 439–45, 448, 449, 465, 474–75

South Korean Labor Party, 430

South Vietnam, 465–73

Southwest Africa, 192

Soviet-Afghan War, 505–8, 512, 530, 533, 545

Soviet Partisan Movement, The
(Howell), 403
n

Soviet Union, 153, 191, 358, 359, 368–69, 377, 378–79, 382–92, 393, 399, 400, 402, 403–5, 410–11, 416,
417,
418, 421, 422, 423, 439, 440, 441, 443–44, 445, 447, 448, 449–52,
450–51,
454, 455, 462, 467, 472, 474–75, 488, 489, 493, 494–95, 497, 498, 499, 505–8, 512, 530, 533, 545, 565, 605
n,
607
n

see also Russia

Sovu, 521

Spain, 307, 344, 394, 397–99, 400, 531, 545, 604
n

Spanish-American War, 59, 335, 537

Spanish Civil War, 307, 397–99, 531, 545, 604
n

Spanish Empire, 5, 18, 63, 65, 66, 68, 72, 86, 102, 111, 161, 162, 168, 171, 172–81, 183, 185, 186, 198–99, 201, 215, 220–21, 229, 249–51, 259, 264, 265, 268, 270, 273, 274, 275–76, 307, 326, 334–35, 338, 378, 402, 531, 551, 553, 556, 585
n,
621
n

Spanish Flu, 558–59

Spanish Morocco, 397

Spanish Road, 220–21

Sparta, 3, 4, 194, 536

Spartacus, 29–30, 35, 60, 570
n

Speir, 99

Spender, Stephen, 399

Spring and Autumn Period, 8–9

Stalin, Joseph, xvii, 123, 153, 189, 190, 191, 357, 378, 382–92, 393, 394, 399, 400, 402, 407
n,
410, 421, 431, 432, 434, 440, 447, 456, 529, 532, 533, 538, 547, 551, 560, 561, 563, 565, 608
n

Stalin, Nadya, 383

Stalingrad, Battle of, 389, 404, 415, 421, 537, 605
n

Stalingrad line, 404

Stalingrad Pocket, 389

Stanger, 279

Stanley, Henry, 325–27, 330, 331–32, 376

Stannard, David, 184, 185, 186

State Department, U.S., 483, 498

State Research Bureau, 485

Statistics of Democide
(Rummel), 186

Stearns, Peter N., 576
n

Stilicho, 62, 63

Story of Civilization, The
(Durant), 556

Strategic Bombing Survey, U.S., 607
n

Subotai, 122–23

Sudan, 84, 108, 192, 292, 320–24, 357, 519

Sudanese Civil War, 461–64, 503, 530, 544

Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), 461, 462–63

Sudanic tribes, 484

Sudetenland, 422–23

Suebi, 38, 62–63

Suez Canal, 320, 395, 487–88, 518

sugar plantations, 27, 28–29, 161–62, 164–65, 169–70, 273, 334, 550

Suharto, 476, 477

Sui dynasty, 78–79, 531, 545, 552

Sukarno, 476–77

Suleyman, Sultan (Du Wenxiu), 297, 298

Sulla, Lucius Cornelius, 32
n,
34, 394

Sung kingdom, 10

Sun Quan, Emperor of China, 53, 54, 57

Sun Shangxiang, 54

Sun Yat-sen, 372–73

Suphankalaya, 196

Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries campaign (1950–51), 430

Suwon, 441

Suzong, Emperor of China, 91

Swazi, 280

Sweden, 207, 210–11, 212, 215, 217–18, 220, 244, 247–48, 250, 256, 259, 338, 344, 360, 400, 419, 538

Switzerland, 38, 219, 344, 354, 360, 400, 419

Syracuse, 13, 19

Syria, 6, 50, 99, 104, 110, 131, 151, 358

Syriac Christians, 353

Szechwan, 380

Tabriz, 149

Tacitus, 52

Taejon, 441, 442

Taiping Rebellion, 108, 282, 285–93, 298, 302, 321, 529, 544, 551, 593
n
–94
n

Taiping Tianguo (Great-Peace Heavenly-Kingdom), 285, 289–90

Taiwan, 229, 364, 380, 432, 444, 533

Taj Mahal, 148, 233

Talas River, 88

Taliban, 508

Tamburlaine the Great
(Marlowe), 146

Tamerlane
(Marozzi), 150
n

Tamerlane (Timur), xvii, 146–53, 234, 271, 529, 533, 538, 539, 546, 580
n

Tamines, 347

Tampico, 340

Tanganyika, Lake, 325

Tang dynasty, 79, 88–91

Tanguts, 122

Tanzania, 81, 280, 484, 485, 501

Taoism, 16–17, 54–55, 57, 91, 112, 113–14

Tapia, Andres de, 160

Taraki, Nur Mohammad, 505

Tarim Basin, 91

Tashkent, 153

Tasmania, 193

Taylor, Frederick, 415
n

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, xvi

Tehran, 65

Temple, Richard, 310–11, 312

Temple Mount, 102

Temujin,
see
Chinggis Khan

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 294

Tenochtitlan, 156, 157, 160, 177–78

Ten Regular Attendants, 54, 55

Ten Years War, 171, 334

Tet Offensive, 469–70

Teutonic Knights, 198

Texas Rangers, 340

Thailand, 195, 409, 439, 465, 493–94, 495

Thebes, 6

Theodora, Empress (wife of Justinian I), 74–75

Theodora, Empress (wife of Theophilus), 110–11

Theodosius I, Byzantine Emperor, 61–62,
63,
68

Theodosius II, Byzantine Emperor,
63,
66

Theophilus, Byzantine Emperor, 110–11

Thermopylae, Battle of, 4

Thessalonica, 61, 371

Third Congo War, 527

Third Crusade, 102–4

Third Estate, 259

Third Indochina War, 494–95

Third Mithridatic War, 34–36, 531, 543, 550, 571
n

Third Reich, 401–2, 409–11

Third Servile War, 29–30

Third World, 449, 465, 476, 480, 484–85, 488, 502, 541

Thirty Years War, 108, 215–22, 229, 338, 529, 532, 533, 544

Thokoly, Imre, 237, 238

Thrace, 24, 345

Three-Antis campaign, 430

Three Kingdoms of China, 53–58, 85, 93, 530, 544, 550

Thug: The True Story of India’s Murderous Cult
(Dash), 111
n

Tiananmen Square, 435

Tianjin, 379

Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, 394

Tibet, 91, 122, 191, 373, 400, 434–35, 559

Tiger Force, 468–69

Tigranes, King of Armenia, 35, 571
n

Tigranocerta, 35

Tigre Province, 486, 488, 489

Tigris River, 131

Tikka Khan, 482

Tikrit, 509

Tilly, Johannes, 217–18

Time,
379

Time of Troubles (Russia), xvii, 207–14, 229, 529, 533, 537, 539, 544, 547, 551

Timur (Tamerlane), xvii, 146–53, 234, 271, 529, 533, 538, 539, 546, 580
n

Tippu Tip, 82

Titanic
sinking (1912), 419, 446

Titus, Emperor of Rome, 50–51, 75, 536