How large numbers of people executed before modern methods like gas/guns. Like in the middle ages, How would anyone have carried out a mass execution

After having captured some prisoners the Vikings who attacked Paris hanged some 111 of them.

Centuries later another person made the Les Grandes Misères de la guerre which still provides one of the most recognisable images from the 17th century.

In the aftermath of the battle of Nicopolis the Sultan had the prisoners beheaded until he grew sick watching the spectacle. Anywhere from 300 to 3000 men were beheaded on that day.

I don’t believe the Patriot as a movie is an accurate historical account, but I don’think it would be unheard of for people to be placed in a building that was set on fire.

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