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Old 08-26-2005, 01:59 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Alot of battles didn't make the list. Vimy Ridge, Oratona, Dieppe, Canae, Carthage, Baghdad, Jerusalem, anything by old Genghis or Tammerlane.
Here you go sir. some of them at least

30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century)
33,000,000–36,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (756–763)
25,000,000–Manchu Conquest of Ming China (1616–1644)
17,000,000 - Timur Lenk's conquests (1370–1405)
3,000,000–8,000,000 - Thirty Years War (1618–1648)

250,000–800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
50,000–350,000 - Rape of Nanking, China (1937)
60,000–100,000 - Sack of Jerusalem, First Crusade (1099)
70,000 - Sack of Merv by Genghis Khan (1221)
70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
30,000–40,000 - massacred in Novgorod by Ivan the Terrible
25,000 - Sack of Magdeburg (Thirty Years War, Germany, 1631)
20,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Timur (1401)

As for Dieppe, I think you would have better sources than I.

Baghdad's been sacked, twice

Maybe you should show these figures to the anti-war lobby.
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