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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

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.

For speech has been made of a thing difficult to speak of well: the September Massacres.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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)

ROLAND, M., notice of, in Paris, Minister, letter, and dismissal of, recalled, decline of, on September Massacres, and Pache, doings of, resigns, flies, suicide of.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas