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Which massacre did Walsingham witness while he was an ambassador to France?

  • The Great Fire of London

  • Battle of Bosworth

  • The Siege of Yorktown

  • St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

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The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, witnessed by Walsingham during his ambassadorship in France, was a horrific event that occurred in 1572. It was a premeditated and organized attack on the Huguenots, a religious minority group in France, carried out by Catholic extremists with the involvement of the French monarchy. Thousands of Huguenots were brutally killed in Paris and other parts of France, marking a dark chapter in French history.
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