Two centuries ago today, Napoleon’s troops executed hundreds of prisoners taken during a quashed uprising against them in Madrid.
The carnage gives posterity an 1814 Goya masterpiece. (And this blog’s frontispiece.)
More reading: Napoleon’s Cursed War, by Ronald Fraser.
On this day..
- Feast Day of James, the brother of Jesus
- 1766: Edmund Sheehy, James Buxton, and Buck Farrell, Whiteboys
- Themed Set: The Easter Rising
- 1916: Thomas MacDonagh, Patrick Pearse, and Thomas Clarke
- 1919: Rudolf Egelhofer, Bavarian Soviet commandante
- 1867: Modiste Villebrun, but not Sophie Boisclair
- 1606: Henry Garnet, Gunpowder Plot confessor
- 1740: Elizabeth and Mary Branch, tyrannical mistresses
- 1664: Elsje Christiaens, Rembrandt model
- 1738: Katherine Garret, Pequot infanticide
- 1909: Jesus Malverde, narco patron saint
- 738: Copan king 18-Rabbit (Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil)
- 1946: Not Willie Francis, who survived the electric chair
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