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In 782, Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) had 4,500 Saxons who refused to convert to Christianity beheaded.
Peasants of Steding (Germany) unwilling to pay suffocating church taxes: between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women, and children killed on May 27, 1234, near Altenesch/Germany. 23]
Battle of Belgrade 1456: 80,000 Turks slaughtered. 35]
15th-century Poland: 1,019 churches and 17,987 villages plundered by the Knights of the Order. Number of victims unknown.
Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries. English troops “pacified and civilized” Ireland, where only Gaelic “wild Irish,” “unreasonable beasts lived without any knowledge of God or good manners, in common of their goods, cattle, women, children and every other thing.” One of the more successful soldiers, a certain Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, ordered that “the heddes of all those (of what sort soever thei were) which were killed in the daie, should be cutte off from their bodies… and should bee laied on the ground by eche side of the waie,” which effort to civilize the Irish indeed caused “greate terrour to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde fathers, brothers, children, kinsfolke, and freinds on the grounde.”
Tens of thousands of Gaelic Irish fell victim to the carnage. 9, 225]
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