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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.
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Here you go sir. some of them at least
30,000,00060,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century)
33,000,00036,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (756763)
25,000,000Manchu Conquest of Ming China (16161644)
17,000,000 - Timur Lenk's conquests (13701405)
3,000,0008,000,000 - Thirty Years War (16181648)
250,000800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
50,000350,000 - Rape of Nanking, China (1937)
60,000100,000 - Sack of Jerusalem, First Crusade (1099)
70,000 - Sack of Merv by Genghis Khan (1221)
70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
30,00040,000 - 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.