The St. Bartholomew 's Day Massacre

The texas general was James W Frannin. The goliad massacre The battle of the goliad massacre was a battle that lasted about thirty minutes.The general of mexico was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.The Goliad Massacre hardened attitudes toward Santa Anna throughout the United States and inflamed and unified the Texas resistance.By the time the colonel ordered the retreat, it was too late.The finely bred, West Point-trained officer lingered for a while as a 1,400-man army led by Santa Anna’s chief lieutenant, General Jose de Urrea, closed in on Goliad.The battle of the goliad massacre was in Presidio La Bahía, Goliad.Sam Houston ordered James Frannin to evacuate his 400 soldiers from Goliad and retreat to Victoria , a town 30 miles to the east behind the natural defense of the Guadalupe River.Santa Anna’s ruthless treatment of the captured soldiers had the opposite effect than what he intended.When one of their carts fell into the San Antonio River, the colonel told his men to halt and retrieve it.The Alamo!” His men thundered a reply with an addendum: “Remember the Alamo! Instead of taking cover in the nearby woods, Fannin ordered his men to form a square on an open prairie near Coleto Creek.Whether indecisive, stubborn or loyal to the rebels away on missions whom he did not want to abandon, Fannin remained in Goliad until the morning of March 19. The Alamo! Instead, the Mexican commanding officer shot Fannin in the face, burned his body with the others and kept the timepiece as a war prize.Fannin,had to get there fast for his safety as the orders he received on March 14, 1836.“This show of generosity after a hotly contested engagement is worthy of the highest commendation,” Urrea wrote to Santa Anna, “and I can do no less than to commend it to your Excellency.”Santa Anna, however, had no desire for such mercy.The death toll would have been even higher if not for a Mexican woman known as the “Angel of Goliad” who convinced a Mexican colonel to spare the lives of approximately 20 doctors, orderlies and interpreters.Less than a month later, as Houston prepared his men for the decisive Battle of San Jacinto that would earn Texas its

This period of fighting saw massacres of Huguenots (French Protestants) by the Catholic monarchs of France, most prominently during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 (where almost 30,000 French Protestants were killed across France in targeted assassinations and mob beatings). Eventually the wars would culminate with the Edict of Nantes in 1598, a treaty issued and signed by King Henry IV of France, who had converted from Protestantism to Catholicism and called for general tolerance.

Henry IV of France was able to act as a "fox" by evaluating what mattered more to him. When Henry converted to Catholosism out of being a Hugenot during the Saint Bartholomew 's Day Massacre, it was clear that he valued his own life over religion. Even when he coverted back to Calvinism afterwards, he soon relized his valued of being in power over religion would cause him to convert, once again, back into Catholism. “Paris is worth a Mass," he said as he gave into the Roman Catholic Church for the leadership of France. This value of state over religion made him a politique, believing that no religious truth was worth the ravages of cicil war. He kept France from futher civil war by issuing the Edict of Nantes which acknowledged Catholicism as th official religion of France but guaranteed the Hugenots the rights to worship. He was wise to recognize that tolerance can help establish peace in his nation and also to convert to Cathalosism because of their bigger population in France.

With the sun rising on a morning in May of 1636, roughly 500 Pequot men, women, and children lay slaughtered on the ground. This was the outcome of the Mystic Fort Battle. The Puritans in New England thought they were entitled to the land and resources that the Native Americans had. With the smallpox epidemic killing thousands of Native Americans who were not prepared for the disease, the Puritans; especially John Winthrop thought that this was God's way of telling the Puritans that this land was meant for them and not the Native Americans (Edwards).

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Lively Family Massacre “ John and David were hardy, brave, pioneers in the year 1813 were residing in the Northeast part of Randolph, on the Southeast part of St. Claire” (Hinton, 2015). Indians were nearby where they lived, Johns family always had a fear of the Indians but John himself did not. Lively slowly started to lose his calmness a couple days later in the massacre. When the family started hearing noises they began to worry more than usual. Johns wife constantly pleaded to leave for safety

The St.valentine massacre was a brutal killing. People say That Al “Scarface” Capone was the cause of the shooting that night.

European exploration of the New World beginning in the 15th century was able to occur due to improved technology, religious reasons, expansion, resources, and power. These factors allowed several voyages such as Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americas- resulting in the colonization and conquests of the Native Americans. Despite the wealth and power earned from these voyages, a decree issued by King Charles I of Spain, the New Laws of 1542, outlawed force labor of the Native Americans. The Spanish colonial settlers should acknowledge the New Laws of 1542 and implement these edicts. The massacres imposed by Hernán Cortes and Francisco Pizarro and the harshness of the encomienda system as well as Bartolomé de las Casas’ revelation of the

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic violence. The massacre was significant because it marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion since the Huguenot political movement was diminished by the loss of many of its leaders. (1572)

August 25, 1572, marked the infamous day of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. The slaughter of Gaspard de Coligny and several dozen Huguenot leaders, followed by the murder of thousands of people in the streets of Paris that day set off tremendous shock waves throughout Europe. As Barbara Diefendorf points out, the massacre provides a ‘graphic illustration’ of the savagery of the religious strife in France at that time. The question of responsibility of the Massacre has been much debated amongst contemporaries and historians, each producing a different account of who was responsible. Whether it was Charles IX, Catherine de Medici, the Guise family, and other primary political figures who instigated the attacks, one will never know for certain. This is unfortunately due to the scarcity and the unreliability of the contemporary sources.

Catherine and Charles tried to avoid joining either side. The religious war became even more complicated due to the English involvement and support of the alliance with the huguenots, and complications that existed due to blood feuds of major noble families. This began when the Huguenot leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny ordered the assassination the Duke of Guise. While the fighting continued into the late 1560s, Huguenot armies continued mercilessly attacking convents and monasteries, torturing and killing their inhabitants. While Catholic forces, equally as cruel, began to slay Huguenots from many

Subsequently, the bloodiest and most violent of conflicts followed as well as the assassination of the duke of Guise, paving the way for the Peace of Saint-Germain-en Laye and ending the brutal fighting. Following these events, the Huguenots began to steadily gain influence, entertaining the notice of Catherine. Unhappy about the situation, Catherine set to convincing her son, Charles, that the Huguenots were planning a coup. Fearful of losing the crown, Catherine, with the help of the Guises, hastily ordered the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, causing the death of twenty thousand Protestants

As tensions became to rise, so did the Conspiracy of Ambroise. “This is which the Huguenots and the House of Bourbon plotted to usurp the power of the Guise family”. (lllll) The Guise family was the family in charge of most of the French government at the time. After the family started to realize what was happening, they became to kill hundreds of conspirators. Trying to ease all of this hostility, Catherine de Medici issued a doctrine known as the Edict of Tolerance in 1562. This

During the 1500’s, the conflict and tension between Catholics and Protestants brought about new levels of violence in Paris and surrounding areas. Despite the authorities of Paris’ attempts at maintaining peace and order, Catholics were determined to rid the streets of unwanted Protestants. On August 24th, 1572, a day known to Catholics as “St. Bartholomew’s Day”, thousands of Protestants were murdered by Catholics. From then on, this day was known as “The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.” Authors Barbra Diefendorf, and Philip Benedict both wrote about this devastating time in history with contrasting approaches to the issue. Though sharing in some similarities, the approaches in which Diefendorf and Benedict take on the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre are significantly contrastive. The authors provide different theories to why the massacre occurred, as well as disclose information about important events that occurred during different times.

In a private correspondence from George Washington to Irish politician Edward Newenham, the president responded to Newenham’s description of the violence between Catholics and Protestants in 1792 by stating that, “Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.” Two hundred and twenty-two years before Washington penned those words, those deep-rooted and disturbing resentments between Catholics and Protestants brought about a massacre of thousands of Protestant victims in the Paris, its neighboring urban centers, as well as in the countryside on 24 August 1572. The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was one of the bloodiest events in early modern French History, and initiated an intensified and bloodier period in the War of Religion. This paper will analyze testimonies from Catholic and Huguenot viewpoints by looking at the massacre’s historical context, the massacre itself, as well as its importance to the Reformation. By presenting information from primary and secondary sources, this paper looks to examine the massacre and the Catholic Church’s culpability, and whether the leaders within the Church could have prevented the slaying of thousands of innocents or simply nurtured longstanding resentments in order to eliminate their religious opposition.