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Peterloo Massacre Reference library
John Rule
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
With the ending of the Napoleonic Wars with France in 1815, popular reform agitation for an adult male franchise in Britain reached levels of participation and developed forms of public ...
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Peterloo massacre (1819) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Military History
An unhappy example of military aid to the civil power, the Peterloo massacre was so called in ironic reference
Peterloo Massacre (1819) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
Violent suppression of a political protest in Manchester,
Peterloo Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
The dispersal of an estimated 60,000 men and women on St Peter's Field in Manchester on 16 August 1819 as
Peterloo Massacre Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
1819, one of the political events that caught the imagination of the young Brontës. Together with the *Luddite Riots...
Peterloo massacre Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
an attack by Manchester yeomanry on 16 August 1819 against a large but peaceable crowd. Sent to arrest the speaker at a rally of supporters of political reform in St Peter's Field, ...
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