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Massacres on this scale usually prompt a strong response from the US, EU and UK, as they should.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2021

They brought with them from the Isle of Massacres a poor Huron woman, whom they had found lying insensible on a rock.

From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

She could carry her mind back to the days when the cheek of England had paled at the Massacres of September in Paris.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.

Indians—or Narratives of Massacres and Depredations on the frontiers of Wawarsink and Vicinity, p.

From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by Hardenbergh, John Leonard

Among the many books dealing with the Indians and Indian Wars, the following may be mentioned: J. P. DUNN, "Massacres of the Mountains, A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West," 1886.

From The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West by Hough, Emerson