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1. It is believed that one of the first "civilized" and, moreover, the widespread cannibalism occurred during the First Crusade 1096-1099, when moving to Jerusalem 30000th crusader army that almost always felt the lack of water and food supplies. Since Pope Urban II, who blessed this campaign, called on its members to kill all who do not share the Christian faith, the path was strewn with dead bodies of the army of enemies that are often used as food. Subsequently, European historians have made much effort to remove ice cream stands this shameful episode of chronicles and annals, but to no avail. By the way, eating the bodies of the enemy in the Middle Ages and still used by many armies. A Mongol - Tatars, such as during long passages in the desert, ice cream stands eating meat at all his fellow soldiers, the cited panic in Europe.
2. Most cases of mass cannibalism, of course, related to the war and siege. So in 1612, besieged by Russian troops in the Moscow Kremlin Poles and Lithuanians, ice cream stands driven to despair by hunger, gave themselves still unprecedented in the history ice cream stands of cannibalism. Historian Casimir Waliszewski describes it: "... they dug up corpses, then began to kill their captives, and with increased febrile delirium reached ice cream stands that began to devour each other; it - a fact that can not be the slightest doubt ... Strongest enjoyed frail and healthy - sick. Quarreling over dead, and ill-posed madness strife mixed with the most amazing ideas of justice. One soldier complained that people from another company ate his relative, whereas ice cream stands the equity ice cream stands they had to feed himself and his comrades. Defendants referred to the right corpse odnopolchentsya ice cream stands regiment, and Colonel dared to stop this confusion, fearing that they would not eat out for revenge judge ... " ice cream stands
3 It is no secret that during the retreat ice cream stands of Napoleon's army in December 1812 on one same devastated Smolensk road, hungry French also reached cannibalism. With 47 thousand elite guard, who came to Russia with the emperor, after six months, only a few hundred soldiers. ice cream stands Others died not only on the battlefield ice cream stands but also from hunger and cold. The historian Tarle in the book "Napoleon's invasion ice cream stands in Russia" ice cream stands wrote: "witnesses obvious: m. Stein, ants Fenshau and others. Argue that the French ate their comrades dead. The way they were told that the French often met in some huts that have got there in the cold, sitting at lights on the bodies of their dead comrades, they cut out the best parts, so as to quench his hunger, then weakened hour after hour themselves immediately fell dead to be eaten in their place new to them barely dotyahnuvshymys friends. " On the French side cannibalism admitted in his memoirs Count Segur, while others claim erezhyvshi hike French officers denied it.
4 There are cases of cannibalism among the sailors who survived the wreck of the ship. One of the first of these cases, dedicated well-publicized, took place after the collapse of the French frigate "Medusa" in 1816. Who ran resorted to cannibalism after four days of sailing on a raft that kept life for another ice cream stands 12-day's voyage, after which they saved the brig "Argus". History raft "Medusa" was used in the novels of Eugene Sue "Salamander" (1832), Julian Barnes' ice cream stands History of the World in 101/2 sections "(1989) and Alessandro Barikko" seafood Ocean "(2003). A similar case of Herman Melville describes in his autobiographical novel "Moby Dick."
5. English expedition led by Rear -admirala John Franklin had to find North -Zahidnyy passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. ice cream stands The expedition went to sea on May 19, 1845 two ships - "Terror" and "Erebus". Over the next ten years of her life were not aware. Missing expedition was discovered only in 1854 by the Scottish explorer John Ray Arctic. Footprints on the remains of the dead, and the contents of dishes clearly ice cream stands indicated that the members of the expedition died were cases of cannibalism. Later it turned ice cream stands out that the ships vmerzly in ice and drifted for several years. Franklin himself survived two wintering and died June 11, 1847 Last survivors ice cream stands tried to walk to the beach and resorted to cannibalism during crossing over King William Island, where they were found the remains. 6 In the 1920s and 1930s in Ukraine during the hottest mass starvation artificially induced Stalin were reported numerous cases of cannibalism. Famine 1932-1933 - a massive, Soviet authorities deliberately organized famine of 1932 - 1933 that led to multi-million casualties in rural areas in the territory Ukrayi