'The Never To be Forgotten, 3rd August' -North Sands Massacre, Sunderland, 1825

1981

The full 1981 original report for the USACE-Omaha District on the Crow Creek Massacre (39BF11) in South Dakota. 379 pages. A poorly scanned pdf of the typescript, but very readable. Image scans are of poor quality. The scanners scan records occupy the first few pages, so scroll by them. Authors: L. Zimmerman, T. Emerson, P. Willey, M Swegle, J. Gregg, P. Gregg, T. Haberman, E. White, C. Smith, M. P. Bumsted. The Appendices include all reviewer comments and author responses.

The Honors Review

This is an analysis of the social-political causes behind the Manchester yeomen's assassination of workers known as The "Peterloo Massacre

Nova Religio, 2008

Page 1. 121 Review Essay The Mountain Meadows Massacre Irén E. Annus American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857. By Sally Denton. Vintage Books, 2003. xxiii + 306 pages. $14.95 paper. ...

Report, 2019

The Walnut Creek massacre occurred July 18, 1865. Ten teamsters, eight white and two African Americans, were killed by a party of Kiowa warriors near Fort Zarah, Kansas. The remains were uncovered during a storm in 1973. The report summarizes the history and physical evidence surrounding the burials. Eighteen buttons and thirteen iron projectile points are described and illustrated.

Australia is populated with violent place names, a shadowland of myth. This is the story of toponymic Murdering Creek, on the southern side of Lake Weyba near Noosa in Queensland’s southeast. We will assess the alleged massacre at Murdering Creek as a potential type instance of the Australian genocidal process, while the war for land raged across the continent for a century or more. Aboriginals were an impediment to a blitzkrieg of settler occupation. Aboriginal dispersal was abetted by a Government process that included military (at first) and then police enforcement. Heavily armed pastoralists were encouraged to take the law into their own hands, if they did it circumspectly, under the guise of self-protection. Aboriginals resisted, but the war was too one-sided. The reward for resistance was to be shot or hanged. British law did not allow Aboriginals to own land, not until well into the 20th century. Until then, Aboriginal dispossession was legal, leaving the First People as trespassers. With no where else to go they became refugees. Detention centres became the Government answer to the Aboriginal problem. And a ruthless boot on the neck. Over 90% of the Aboriginal population ‘disappeared’ by 1911. We see the pattern of invasive occupation repeat for all states, including Queensland. From the early 1860s, almost all the available pastoral areas in south east Queensland had been taken over by British settlers seeking their fortune. Many leases remained a battleground. In our forensic examination of the Murdering Creek massacre myth, we find that it is supported by an actual event that, on the balance of evidence, took place in 1864 on a 23,000 acre pastoral station called Yandina Run, between the Maroochy River and Lake Weyba. We determine that the massacre was carried out by local pastoral workers and at least one timbergetter. The motive seems to have been a belief in white supremacy, and a pathological desire to remove the Aboriginals, who objected to a homestead being built near a sacred bora in 1862. An unkown number of Aboriginals were murdered while in canoes at the mouth of the Creek and into the shallow foreshore of the lake, where they had been inveigled by a ruse.

Revising the horrific Nellie massacre of 1983, where in about 5000 illegal Bengali speaking Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh were killed in Assam, though the narration of one of attackers. The Paper also aims at examining the circumstances that lead to the incident and why.

Margin, Life and Letters of Early Australia, 2005

The Hornet Bank massacre of eleven Europeans, including eight members of the Fraser family, took places about dawn on 27 October 1857 at a station on the upper Dawson River in central Queensland. Rosa Praed, the nineteenth-century novelist, wrote about Hornet Bank in her factual and fictional writing. She made extensive, and ultimately discerning, use of material that was part of her family's history. Her father, Queensland pioneer squatter and politician, Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior was a major organiser of the subsequent retaliation. The paper also looks at the Charles de Boos novel 'Fifty Years Ago: An Australian Tale' of 1867 which appears to have drawn on aspects of the Hornet Bank massacre too.

1978

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International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2024

Recent stabilization work at the Ludlow Massacre Site National Historic Landmark revealed new insights into memorialization activities over time. The site commemorates a battle between striking miners and the Colorado National Guard which culminated in the destruction of a striking miners 'tent colony by fire causing the deaths of two women and eleven children in a cellar. The United Mine Workers of America erected a monument and preserved that cellar in cement sometime after 1918. Unexpected finds encountered during preservation work on the cellar raise issues related to collective memory, memorialization, and scale. These finds offer new understandings of changes made at the site by the strikers and the UMWA since the massacre in 1914.

A translation of an account by A. Vereshchagin from his memoirs about a journey down the Amur in 1900. This is a description of the gruesome scenery on the Amur a few days after the drowning of the Chinese residents of Blagoveshchensk, possibly the darkest moment of Russo-Chinese relations.