Myall Creek Massacre Research Paper

The american force was commanded by Abraham Buford and the british forces were commanded by Banastre Tarleton.The American forces had 113 killed while the British forces has 4 killed.The British forces had less people killed,wounded,missing,and captured.This war took place while the American Revolutionary war was going on. This battle is also known as Buford’s massacre.

During this standoff, two of the Indian activists were shot and killed diminishing the enthusiasm and determination of those who knew them. Additionally, food supplies were extremely low and then federal agents forbade the news media from entering the scene so that AIM’s message was no longer reaching the public, and after 71 days the elders of Pine Ridge, who had originally asked AIM to come, called an end to the occupation despite AIM’s objections. The Indians relinquished their position and many slipped away during the night to avoid arrest, others agreed to surrender their arms and submit to arrest. In the months following more than 500 arrests and 185 indictments were brought against AIM members, most of the charges were dismissed. But the federal government was not alone in going after the protestors of Wounded Knee, Dick Wilson had his own methods of retribution.

The green river killer is a man known by the name of Gary Ridgeway on the surface he lead a seemingly normal life, head down a regular job and was married. Ridgeway began his murders in 1982 by murdering young prostitute who were runaways.Many of these girls were minorities. He dumped the bodies of his victims  in the Green River which ultimately gave him the name the Green River killer because he dumped all of his bodies in the same river. From the beginning of his crime spree there were many dead bodies but no good leads on who the murderer was. It wasn't until 2001 when more technology became available that the case was reopened.  The specific technology that they used to solve this cold case  was DNA. In 2003 he pleaded guilty to 48 counts

On March 5, 1770, British soldiers shot and killed five people on King Street in Boston Massachusetts. This incident is now known as the “Boston Massacre.” The soldiers were under attack of a heckling, snowballing mob of American colonists. The colonists- “Patriots”- were protesting the British troops presence in their city. The troops were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by British Parliament that lacked American representation.

"...he really thought they did fire to defend themselves." The Bloody Massacre was a killing of five people and six others were wounded. A more commonly known name is the Boston Massacre. This was also a key event that led to the start of the Revolutionary War.

What follow are the events and tensions leading up to the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770. The soldiers and the colonists were quarreling and there were high tensions amongst them. In the days leading up to the massacre the soldiers may have plotted against the colonists of New England. There was a fight that took place at the ropemakers, which is considered to be one of the most influential encounters between the soldiers and the New Englanders. There are several different accounts of how this conflict took place. According to Captain Preston, “[o]n the [2nd] instant two of the 29th going through one Gray's ropewalk, the rope-makers insultingly asked them if they would empty a vault. This unfortunately had the desired effect by provoking

The Myall Creek Massacre in Colonial Australia was caused by arising conflict from British imperialism as the greed for land and goods caused the English to disregard the rights of the Australian natives. In pursuit of resources and Newmarket’s, Britain colonised the majority of the world and the ramifications of this have continued into today. Firstly, upon colonising the land, settlers were continuing to ship convicts to Australia, due to America refusing the convicts after the War of Independence. The tensions that arose as a result of British colonisation culminated several episodes of conflict such as the Myall Creek Massacre. This event occurred as the result of escalating tensions between white settlers and the Aborigines which

Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 : it established federal standards in the construction of refuse piles and dams by coal companies but these standards only protected the coal miners (and not the public who lived around the coal mines) while he was working.

On the day of February 14th, 1929 Four men walked into S.M.C. Cartage Company at around 10:30 am. After a bone-rattling set of gunfire was heard, they walked back out, two of them looking like police officers, leading the other two out by shotgun escort. Little did everyone around them suspect they all were apart of the murders that were just committed, the amount of blood loss and ammunition used leading to the papers dubbing it the “St. Valentine's Day Massacre” despite only seven victims. We all know it was bloody, but what exactly happened during the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and why?

In September of 1857, roughly 120 members of the “Baker-Fancher” party - a California bound wagon-train from Arkansas – decided to set up camp in Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory. The newly-arrived settlers were denied water access and grazing land by the LDS throughout Utah, and thus welcomed the lush pastures and pristine streams of Mountain Meadows. However, unbeknownst to them, an increasingly malevolent Mormon presence planned on retributive bloodshed.

On the day of September 11, 1857, an emigrant party camped at Mountain Meadows was brutally killed by the Mormon militia aided by Indians. This essay examines two viewpoints regarding the massacre found in Sally Denton’s “American Massacre” and in “Massacre at Mountain Meadows” by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, and Glen M. Turley.

It held many struggles and disagreements, which lead to many retaliations, from both the Indians and the settlers. The Indians had been alliances with the white men until the massacre, which stated the settlers betrayal to all tribes.

The worst mass murder suicide was the Jonestown Massacre which happened on November 18th, 1978. Have you ever head the saying “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” this originates for the Jonestown Massacre, which killed over 900 members of the Peoples Temple. James Jones made a concoction of a powered drink, like Kool-Aid mixed laced with cyanide and prescription drugs. James Jones used psychological manipulation instead of physical force with the members of Peoples Temple.

On November 18, 1978, followers of Jim Jones shot and killed United States Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four others traveling with him on a fact finding trip to Guyana. Ryan was there to investigate complaints about the community called "Jonestown," which was largely inhabited by his former California constituents.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has passed a holocaust law which criminalizes of suggesting that the people of Poland were involved war crimes by the committed Axis powers. Along with it, the lawmakers of Poland approved implementing of the condemnation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army of their actions in Poland to the National Remembrance Institute bill that was signed by the Polish president on February 1, 2018. For any denial of the Volyn massacre that was carried out by the Ukrainian Nationalist can be fined or face three years in prison. This bill sparked much controversy in Ukraine. The current president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko claimed the new law was “absolutely biased and categorically unacceptable.”