MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · August 20
THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 20
August 20 in history
1191 — The Acre garrison
20 Aug 1191 — with ransom talks stalled, Richard has some 2,700 Muslim prisoners of the surrendered garrison executed in view of Saladin’s army. A brutal act of war, named soberly. A site of memory.
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1955 — Philippeville
20 Aug 1955 — An FLN attack on European civilians and the massive French reprisal that follows — thousands killed — end any middle ground in Algeria. Terror and counter-terror harden into a war without mercy. Remember the dead of both.
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