Imagine walking down the street and notice a group of people talking about you. Would you say something to stop it or would you just ignore it? The Saint Bartholomew Massacre was an unpleasant, bloody massacre that started on August 24-25, 1572. The Catholics were going to attack the French Protestants in France to get rid of any Huguenots that believed in any other religion different as them. This massacre lasted for about two days, which caused many people to lose their lives. The causes, events of the massacre, and the terrible effects it had on people makes the Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre one of the most horrible crimes in history. There are many causes that led up to the start of the St. Bartholomew Massacre. First, on August 22, Catherine de Medici was mad because the Protestant leader, Coligny, was trying to convince her son to send troops to the Protestants. Catherine became angrier and wanted Coligny assassinated (Diefendorf). Diefendorf states that Catherine de Medici did not really get along with Coligny and he encouraged her son, …show more content…
In the courtyard of Louvre, many noble Huguenot were killed. Many gangs in Paris began killing Protestants (Hitchcock and Edmund). Around Paris there were groups of people trying to kill others they did not like. The source “Impact of Saint Bartholomew” claims that the nobles led the Protestant and Catholic groups. The Guise family led the Catholics that believed the Protestants were heretics and should be destroyed. Violence was so common that it became the way of life for the French People. After the massacre, the French thought of violence as an everyday use to get back at people. The tragedy of the Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre led to about 3,000 French Protestants killed and this day was the reopening of civil wars in France (“St Bartholomew Massacre”). When the massacre ended, a lot of people's lives were changed and their houses were
We just recently lost the Alamo and all the great men who fought for it. 189 men lost there lives fighting for the Alamo and they will be greatly remembered. The men held the fort for 13 days before Santa Anna and his army engulfed it. Santa Anna other wise know as napoleon of the west or the president of Mexico ordered his men to kill every one thou he let some women and children go to tell the tale. Soon after the lose of the Alamo general urrea executed 400 Texans under command of colonel Fannin which is known as Goliad massacre.
Before the Boston Massacre even occurred, tensions were high in the city of Boston between the Bostonians and the British. At this time people were just getting over the Stamp Act and were now angered by the new taxes also known as the Townshend Duties. This new tax caused Bostonians to become more aggressive causing the British to send more soldiers to impose the laws of Parliament and to restore order among the people. The arrival of more soldiers only caused more of an uproar between the people of Boston and the red coats. Bostonians went out of their way to harass British soldiers whenever they got the chance, but on March 5, 1770 both sides acted unacceptably resulting in the Boston Massacre (84-85).
...t day, not purposeful wanton murders. Using the term massacre to describe what happened to the colonists was a successful propaganda ploy by Samuel Adams to rally the colonists against the British, eventually resulting in American independence.
making laws that abolish christianity is insane and trying to control an individual’s religion is very unfair and controlling for the new french government to do. Abolishing Sunday worship, Christmas, and Easter is a horribly crude thing for a revolutionary to do (Doc. C). France Representatives also took a cropper crucifix which was on the altar and carried it mockingly, upside down on a cart, offering it to passers-by to sit on (Doc. C). In Vendee, historians estimate that anywhere between 80,000 and 500,000 French people on both sides died in 1793 (Doc. C). Townspeople fought fiercely against a military draft called levee en masse and against laws to try to abolish Christianity in France (Doc. C). These pieces of evidence display that the Reign of Terror was in no way
...t to the accusations brought under the new Martin Guerre. Jean de Coras was proven to have had Protestant ties, and was eventually killed for them. (100) However, he was also a very learned, educated, and passionate man with an upstanding career in law and, after the case of Martin Guerre, the literary world. The idea that someone of so high a rank embraced the new religion shows that its influence at the time cannot be ignored.
On March 5th, 1770 the colonists were going to protest against the British rule because they were being unfair to the colonists, with taxes being passed without the colonists’ approval. The proclamation of 1763 didn’t help stopping people from settling across the Appalachian mountains even though people fought for it. Also each house had to house and feed a soldier. Many other taxes on different items also caused colonists to be angry. Many started to protest one of these protests had the colonists in front of government building with weapons the British soldiers then fired killing five and injuring others. There was not a massacre on March 5, 1770 in Boston because there was not a massacre on March 5, 1770 in Boston because less than ten colonists
The Boston Massacre was one the most controversial massacre in American history that teased the coming of the American Revolution. People were taunting a British soldier who was standing “in front of the Boston Custom House” who got very frustrated to the point where he hit somebody. The soldier got overwhelmed by people who came after he hit one of them, called help from his fellow soldiers. When Captain Preston and his soldiers arrived at the scene, people were coming from everywhere, some were trying to fight them and some were just there to watch. Then, one of the soldier shot at the people and his fellow soldiers started shooting after, which killed five people. This what ended it up being called the Boston Massacre. Some might say that the murderer were the soldiers who shot the people, but the real murderer is
The Boston Massacre was a very harsh time in the American Revolution. Great Britain sent guards to Boston, to enforce the different Tax Acts.The Bostonians were fed up with the British guards and their taxes. In response to the taxes the Bostonians were enraged and one day they formed a big mob after several angry words were exchanged. The Redcoats became annoyed with the harassment of the Bostonians, so they fired into the mob. When the mob cleared there were dead and wounded Patriots on the ground.
The Boston Massacre was a fundamental event at the beginning of the American Revolution. The massacre became part of anti-British propaganda for Boston activists and fed American fears of the English military in both the North and South. The Boston Massacre was the first “battle” in the Revolutionary War. Although it wasn’t until five years after the Boston Massacre that the Revolutionary War officially began, the Boston Massacre was a forecast of the violent storm to come.
Deep in the Arkansas Delta, there is a town surrounded by cotton. This town is called Elaine. Like most towns surrounded by rivers and far away from any main roads, its only landmark is a rusty water tower. Elaine’s financial decay is very apparent to anyone who happens to pass through it. It’s storefronts are boarded and abandoned and it’s school is long forgotten and crumbled. What's not apparent, is its historical value. On the day of September 30, 1919, a deadly, and possibly the bloodiest, racial confrontation of the Red Summers era, the violent time after reconstruction. This left hundreds of blacks and several whites dead. This historical event was called the Elaine Massacre, which happened only four years before the Supreme Court protected
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The Great Cat Massacre written by Robert Darnton in 1984 makes a point of the history of ordinary people’s mentalities as the concept and argues that the mentalities strongly influenced people’s behaviour and thinking in eighteenth century France, so this book can be classified into l’histoire des méntalites. For example, in “The Great Cat Massacre”, the title essay, Darnton picks up a French printer, Nicolas Contat’s memoirs as sources, deals with the event in the memoirs that some printers executed jokily cats one of which was loved by their master’s wife, and explicates people’s mentalities by interpreting historical background and meanings of this animal abuse, which the present people seem to regard as cruelty. For that, Darnton exploits
On August 24, 1572 St. Bartholomew Day Massacre happened. It was the murder of French Protestants or Huguenots which began in Paris. It was on a morning that French Catholic troops started to kill defenseless Protestants who met for a royal marriage. The tragedy killed about two thousand persons in Paris and another three thousand in other local cities. The massacre was prompted by Catherine de' Medici and it was allowed by Charles IX. It was a serious shock to French Protestantism. Its definitive outcome was to strengthen the struggle of enduring Huguenots to the pressures of the Catholics. Also, open religious conflict was soon improved. The events of the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre organize the most notorious event in the French Wars of Religion. Also, it caused a turning point in these wars. In the following paragraphs I will explain how it started, it significant, and it effects.
Bartholomew Massacre. To begin with, on the night of August 23, there was a secret meeting held in the Louvre, a palace in France, to remove the Huguenot leader (Diefendorf). When the bell rang of Saint Germain’l Auxerois the massacre began before dawn on August 24 (“Massacre of St.Bartholomew”). When the massacre began the Catholics first wanted to kill the the Huguenot leader then other Protestant followers.The Massacre began on August 24-25 1572 in Paris, France. Many civil wars broke out between the forces of Catholics and Protestants in 1562 in France. Another name for these series of wars are called the French Wars on Religion (Hitchcock and Edmund). These many wars are called the French Wars on Religion because they happened in France and arguing about what religion France should be.According to the article, “ Impact of Saint Bartholomew” France was broken up between Catholics and Protestants. These two types of religions caused problems between the two because Huguenots were followers of Jean Calvin, but the Catholics were not.Then, in a cathedral called Notre Dame in Paris Henry of Navarre, a Huguenot leader, married King Charles IX sister, Margaret of Valois (Manetsch). After Coligny was murdered, Huguenot leaders were shot and killed by their enemies using swords. Many of the leaders tried to escape from the disaster because they were still trying to wake up from their sleep (Manetsch). “The homes and ships if
The French Revolution may have temporarily destroyed Christianity in France, however, it acted as a savior for the future of Christianity. According to the Bible, God allows us to go through trials of tribulation to grow stronger and closer to him. This series of events that impacted France, represented a truly dark period in the history of Christianity, but also marked a rebirth and overall revival of a religion that was becoming far detached from its roots.