What were the worst war crimes before the 20th century?

probably some chinese civil wars shit

>>17766017 (OP)
Anytime the Mongols conquered a big city their brutality shocked contemporaries. It’s them.

>>17766017 (OP)
Middle Roman Republic and Mongolian treatment of defeated cities. Namely killing and enslaving everybody and turning the city into a pile of rubble. Both of them were considered outrageous in behaviour for both of their times. There's also genocide, like with Mithridates and the Asiatic Vespers, where he commanded a genocide of Romans and Italians in Anatolia and Greece. The next one I can think of is Saladin and the genocide of the Frankish settlers of Outremer, it was noted by a pilgrim that all Frankish settlements were eradicated in the wake of Hattin

The ones forgotten

Mongol sack of baghdad
Spanish colonization of americas
Ottoman and barbary pirates slave raids in the mediterranean
Transatlantic slave trade

>>17766017 (OP)
Tamerlane and his 1000 skull pyramids made of 100 skulls each
The chronicler couldn't keep counting after 1000

>>17766017 (OP)
The use of starvation in warfare in general. Romans pioneered it, as highlighted in Vegetius, although I doubt they were first.
On a related note Maurice's Strategikon commanded Roman generals to expel all women, children, and elderly from a besieged city so that there wouldn't be extra-mouths to feed. There's clear logic behind it but I don't know how frequent a practice it was.

>>17766017 (OP)
Tamerlane

The killing of all Danes by Æthelred the Unready
The Harry Of The North by William the Conqueror
The massacre of the Cathars in the Albigensian crusade
The blinding of 15,000 Bulgars by Basil II
Impalement and torture under Vlad the Impaler
Oliver Cromwell's campaign in Ireland
Sherman's March To The Sea during the American Civil War

>>17766088
This. If they're still around to lick their wounds and victimfarm, then it wasn't that bad.

I am thinking of the jews when I write this.

Crackkkers in the south whipping innocent colored folk

>>17766017 (OP)
bengal and irish famines in the 19th century was the first state-sanctioned industrial cleansing of people deemed inferior, by the UK. if they had lost the world wars it'd be as spoken about as the holocaust.

>>17766017 (OP)
Circassian genocide by the Russian Empire
>>17766502
Fake

Any time some great scientist or philosopher that was specifically ordered to be spared was killed. Archimedes comes to mind

>>17766017 (OP)
Carthage

swedentrunk

I think that's how Germans got their scat fetish

>>17766295
>Sherman
That was gentle kiddie shit.

>>17766295
>Sherman's March To The Sea during the American Civil War
that does not deserve to be in same discussion as Mongol Skull Mountain

>>17766089
dont dare ever compare the indentured servitude of privileged whites under arab rule to the chattel slavery of black people in the americas. sit down, be silent cracka. a black man is posting

>>17766295
>no mention of the Assyrians
>no mention of the entire Thirty Years war
>no mention of the Mongols or Romans either

>>17766677
More like belly stuffing fetish

>>17766974
The mongols and the Romans were already mentions on here.

>>17766295
assblasted neoconfederate detected

>>17766123
>There's clear logic behind it but I don't know how frequent a practice it was.
It was common practice across the world even at the time.

>>17767402
>It was common practice across the world even at the time.
I should have specified Roman examples. Most of the examples I can think of happened when Rome was the one doing the sieging rather than the defending

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fuck this board

Voulet–Chanoine Mission is pretty unknown colonial episode in the late 19th century.
It happened late to the whole colonialism game, but the French were still looking to expand their colonial empire, conquer remaining independent African tribes near French territories and to solidify their rule in untamed parts Africa. The expeditionary force was made out of mostly African troops led by French officers.
Pretty shortly into the campaign the French expedition leader Paul Voulet (pictured) went literally insane, and started a campaign of mass atrocities against the tribal Africans that included the usual rape, murder and torture, and also particularly heinous acts like roasting children alive in cooking fires. Once the word of what he was up to reached French authorities, they sent colonel Jean-François Klobb to track him down and arrest him with an armed escort. Once Klobb finally found Voulet, Voulet incited his troops to shoot and kill him which they did. After that Voulet gave a speech to his officers, declaring that he is no longer a Frenchman, he is now a black chief, and will found a new empire. At this point his officers finally had a wake-up call which resulted in a mutiny. Voulet fought back and tried to shoot his own troops before fleeing to the jungle. He was killed the next day when he tried to return to the camp and retake the command. The French officers managed to retain control over their troops and completed rest of the expeditionary mission without further notable incidents, everyone kinda chilled out and stopped being murderous marauders after Voulet's death.

>>17766974
>>no mention of the Assyrians
The Elamites all had it coming. Just don't steal people's stuff.

>>17766017 (OP)
the opium wars

30.000 civilians were eaten.
DECISIVE TANG VICTORY

>>17766295
Sherman's March to the Sea did not really differ from strategic bombing, except it was done by infantry.

>>17768024
Retarded faggot >>17766127>>17766110

>>17766017 (OP)
Belgian Congo and Cambodian Pol Pot