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#OnThisDay > On the one side were hundreds of armed troops and certain enslavement. On the other— a steep cliff. > Numerous historical accounts share one of the most heroic mass suicides in modern history when on December 16, 1803, one by one, dozens of women tossed their children over the cliffs before jumping themselves.

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On This Day December 16, 1803: Heroic Greek Women Choose Death Over Ottoman Enslavement - The Pappas Post

During a Greek uprising in Epirus against Ottoman Albanian rulers in 1803, brave women began evacuating en masse to avoid an onslaught.